Samenvatting

Soybean and fishmeal are obtained in large quantities to produce animal feed. This puts an immense stress on today’s environment. Insect larvae are seen as a possible replacement of soybean and fishmeal but there is still a large knowledge gap preventing large scale production. Many species of insect larvae contain a favourable lipid profile for use in animal feed. These values are usually acquired from insect larvae reared at optimal conditions (25 °C). However, when rearing larvae at mass they are exposed to sub-optimal conditions (35 °C), from the large number of larvae together. The goal of this study is to discover if this change in rearing temperature has an effect on lipid composition. Housefly larvae (M. domestica) were used because of their short reproductive cycle and good nutritious value.