ABSTRACT
Scores of papers about insect rearing include the term mass rearing even though many of these papers deal with production of only a few hundred to several thousand insects per week. However, mass rearing should designate only those programs where the number of progeny produced per day equals 1 million times the number of offspring that can be produced by a single female per day (Mackauer, 1972). Large-scale rearing operations are characterized by employment of artificial diets and higher degrees of automation than that in smaller-scale operations (Nordlund et al., 2001).
