Table 5.

Differences in the transforming capacity of the larvae of the Protaetia brevitarsis for six materials investigated here.

Processing treatments	Food intake (g)	Larvae weight gain (g)	Dung-sand weight (g)	Feed utilization rate (%)	Dung-sand conversion rate (%)	Mortality (%)
Sterilized cotton stalks compound feed	58.14 ± 0.38 a	1.95 ± 0.08 c	48.16 ± 0.66 b	72.67 ± 0.47 a	85.69 ± 0.78 a	2.00 ± 2.00 a
Sterilized root stubble compound feed	51.90 ± 0.42 b	2.08 ± 0.07 ab	40.07 ± 0.38 c	64.87 ± 0.52 b	80.42 ± 0.19 b	2.00 ± 2.00 a
Cotton stalks infected with V. dahliae compound feed	59.61 ± 0.58 a	2.17 ± 0.03 ab	51.81 ± 0.33 a	74.52 ± 0.72 a	90.21 ± 0.71 a	0.00 ± 0.00 a
Root stubble infected with V. dahliae compound feed	57.76 ± 0.59 a	2.25 ± 0.02 a	47.47 ± 0.37 b	72.21 ± 0.74 a	85.53 ± 1.00 a	0.00 ± 0.00 a
Cotton stalks infected with V. dahliae	40.03 ± 0.71 c	1.95 ± 0.09 c	32.59 ± 0.24 d	50.04 ± 0.88 c	85.68 ± 1.61 a	2.00 ± 2.00 a
Root stubble infected with V. dahliae	35.31 ± 0.60 d	1.89 ± 0.08 c	26.17 ± 0.20 e	44.14 ± 0.75 d	78.40 ± 1.62 b	2.00 ± 2.00 a