Canadian Journal of Zoology (1967) 45, 365-367

A.J. McGinnis and R. Kasting (1967)
Dietary cellulose: effect on food consumption and growth of a grasshopper
Canadian Journal of Zoology 45 (3), 365-367
Abstract: Diets containing wheat-sprout meal, cellulose powder and pulverised chromic oxide paper in varying proportions, were fed to 5th-instar nymphs of Melanoplus sanguinipes for four and five day trials. For a diet containing up to 90% cellulose they continued to gain weight normally suggesting that the cellulose did not affect the availability of nutrients in the diet. Therefore, by increasing their consumption, the grasshopper apparently compensates for low concentrations of dietary nutrients.
(The abstract is excluded from the Creative Commons licence and has been copied from Acridological Abstracts with permission by NRI, Univ. of Greenwich at Medway.)
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
general biology - morphology - evolution
rearing/culturing/mass production

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Melanoplus sanguinipes