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🗞️   Boosting Bug Farms: A Meta-Analysis on Probiotic Effects in Insect Rearing

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Interest in insects and food as feed is rapidly growing. With this, however, comes a move towards mass rearing and industrial scale production. This upscaling and industrialisation of the rearing process is likely to result in high density rearing, which in itself facilitates disease spread (Tarwater and Martin, 2001). Furthermore, the fact that these insects are likely to be genetically closely related further increase the risk of infectious disease outbreak (Ekroth et al., 2019; Gibson and Nguyen, 2021). In tackling this risk, it is important that we do not resort to the mass use of antibiotics that has been seen in the livestock industry.

BioRxiv     Apr 05, 2025