This article reports on the nutrients present in insects and factors affecting their variability.
Data on protein content and amino acid profiles of a variety of insect species are discussed …

Chitin is a linear polysaccharide of the amino sugar N-acetyl glucosamine. It is present in the
extracellular matrix of a variety of invertebrates including sponges, molluscs, nematodes and …

Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems.
They play critical roles in ecological food webs, remain devastating agricultural and medical …

A variety of commercially raised insect species are commonly fed to captive insectivores. We
review their nutrient content and compare those values to the data available for wild-caught …

Energy storage in arthropods has important implications for survival and reproduction. The
lipid content of 276 species of adult arthropods with wet mass in the range 0.2–6.13 g is …

Why the rate of metabolism varies (scales) in regular, but diverse ways with body size is a
perennial, incompletely resolved question in biology. In this article, I discuss several …

Stoichiometric differences among organisms can affect trophic interactions and rates of
nutrient cycling within ecosystems. However, we still know little about either the underlying …

The interest in fish processing by-products and underutilized catch for the production of
biofunctional food ingredients has increased in the last number of decades. These marine …

Larger individuals typically have lower mass‐specific metabolic rates compared to small
ones (hypometric scaling). This trend is most evident across species where body size …

How are resource consumption and growth rates of litter‐consuming detritivores affected by
imbalances between consumer and litter C: N: P ratios? To address this question, we offered …