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Škůdci krmných substrátů - druhové složení, význam a možnosti likvidace
Hustá, Valérie
This bachelor thesis examines pests of feed stuff. The literary research describes the most important pests, the extent of their influence in agriculture, food industry and methods of pest control with an emphasis on further use of the substrate. This work focuses on non-chemical methods which do not have a negative impact on the safety of feed stuff, food and the environment. The next part describes the effect of low temperatures as physical method of disruption on the life manifestations of insects and mites. To test this, one of the most common pests, Tenebrio molitor, were exposed to different low temperatures (0 °C, 3 °C, and 6 °C) for durations of 5 min, 10 min and 20 min. The feed intake, weight gain and feed conversion were measured. The results show decreasing temperature and increasing expose interval increased the feed intake. This experiment indicates that low temperature do not eliminate pests or mitigate damages but can stimulate pests to take more feed stuff resulting in more damage and losses.
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