National Food Safety and Quality Service

Optimization of Antimicrobial Concentrations in an Agar-Free, Low-Cost, Wheat Germ-Based Diet for Mass Rearing of Drosophila suzukii

The bottleneck for the mass production of Trichopria drosophilae Perkins (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae), the principal parasitoid of the Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), is the lack of efficient mass-rearing methods. Here, we optimized the concentrations of fiv...

Early-life exposure to plastics is associated with health parameters and biomarkers in southern giant petrels

The sub-lethal effects of plastics and their associated chemicals on wildlife are poorly understood, primarily due to the lack of reliable indicators. We used southern giant petrels ( Macronectes giganteus, SGP), key scavengers and predators in southern seas, to assess whether ea...