Advances in production of house flies as food and animal feed: key challenges and solutions
摘要
The ubiquity of the common housefly (Musca domestica) in all climate zones has made it a frequent topic of study in a variety of scientific fields. The earliest published study on the use of housefly as an animal feed ingredient appears to be from 1969 (Calvert et al., 1969), though the idea is quite a bit older: Calvert credits a 1919 German paper for the idea of rearing fly larvae (Lindner, 1919). The impulse to cite very old studies of houseflies appears itself to be something of a tradition: Lindner, drawing upon what by 1919 was evidently already an ancient and extensive body of literature on fly biology, cites a calculation by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) on their extraordinary fecundity.