Do It by Yourself: Larval Locomotion in the Black Soldier Fly <i>Hermetia illucens</i>, with a Novel "Self-Harvesting" Method to Separate Prepupae.

Highly significant differences were found when comparing the three selected traits of larval movement: middle body arching was much more emphasized by prepupae compared to 6th instar larvae (U = 100; z = 3.7; p < 0.001), the arching of the anterior part preceding the pinning movement was more evident in 6th instar larvae (U = 0.00, z = −3.7, p < 0.001) and the angle formed during the pinning movement was also much more acute in the latter (U = 0.00, z = −3.7, p < 0.001) ( Figure 4 ). 3.3.

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