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Sammer Marzouk
University of Chicago Laboratory High Schools Protocol Group
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This is a study to assess the near perfect conditions in order to raise the greatest amount of Black Soldier Flies into adulthood. This is so that is amount of uses as Black Soldier flies as model organism increases. All genres of Black Soldier Flies were looked at in this study to develop the protocol. The flies that were chosen were best represented to reflect the abilities and gender of the natural amount of Black Soldier flies in the wild. Potential subjects were then tested with the different types of p variables such as food and sunlight. At this time all the Black Soldier flies were kept in specific conditions and tested with different types of habitats. These habitats reflected the living conditions of the flies in the natural plain. After all the data was compiled, it was aggregated and used to find the best living conditions for the Black Soldier fly as a model organism. This was used personally in a lab setting of the author in order to increase the amount of Black Soldier Flies that were gained from breeding. This protocol resulted in a significant increase in the amount of Black Soldier flies that were bred in the lab.
Keywords
Flies, Bugs, Tseste Flies, Model Organism, Lab Space, Ecology, Environment, Entomology
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Method Article
Sammer Marzouk
University of Chicago Laboratory High Schools Protocol Group
Corresponding Author
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Posted 22 Feb, 2018
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This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0 License. Read Full License
This is a study to assess the near perfect conditions in order to raise the greatest amount of Black Soldier Flies into adulthood. This is so that is amount of uses as Black Soldier flies as model organism increases. All genres of Black Soldier Flies were looked at in this study to develop the protocol. The flies that were chosen were best represented to reflect the abilities and gender of the natural amount of Black Soldier flies in the wild. Potential subjects were then tested with the different types of p variables such as food and sunlight. At this time all the Black Soldier flies were kept in specific conditions and tested with different types of habitats. These habitats reflected the living conditions of the flies in the natural plain. After all the data was compiled, it was aggregated and used to find the best living conditions for the Black Soldier fly as a model organism. This was used personally in a lab setting of the author in order to increase the amount of Black Soldier Flies that were gained from breeding. This protocol resulted in a significant increase in the amount of Black Soldier flies that were bred in the lab.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
This is a list of supplementary files associated with this preprint. Click to download.
- supplement0.pdf
Main Article Raising H.illucens: A protocol
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