Review: Exploring correctness, usefulness, and feasibility of potential physiological operational welfare indicators for farmed insects to establish research priorities

animal, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 101501 - 101501

Published: April 1, 2025

While insects are already the largest group of terrestrial food and feed livestock animals in terms absolute number individuals, insect farming industry is expected to continue growing rapidly order meet nutritional demands human population during 21st century. Accordingly, consumers, producers, legislators, industry-adjacent researchers have expressed interest further research assessment farmed welfare. Operational indicators animal welfare those that can be used putatively assess absence true affective state (e.g., valenced/emotional state) commonly for vertebrate species; however, significant behavioral physiological differences between vertebrates means these must examined their correctness, usefulness, feasibility prior use with livestock. The most valuable operational would (1) correctly correspond insect's putative state; (2) provide useful information about what affecting welfare; (3) feasible deployment at a large scale on farms. As there many possible could researched insects, evaluating likely feasibility, usefulness will allow prioritize which investigate first Thus, this review, we explore whether or somatic welfare, including whole-body, immune, neurobiological, respiratory/cardiac indicators, may correct, feasible, assessing We review systems, as well any existing, welfare-relevant data from closely related insects. end by proposing priority list physiological, correctly, usefully, feasibly guide indicator validation priorities scientists.

Language: Английский

Advances in insect biomonitoring for agriculture and forestry: A synthesis on a multifaceted special issue of Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 11, 2024

12 December 2024: This article published in Early View error. The is under embargo and will republish on 7 January 2025.

Language: Английский