Table 1.

Larval developmental time and final weight, overall degradation and waste reduction index of BSF larvae grown on different diets and conditions.

	SD	VMD	Mass Rearing VMD
Development time (day)	17 ± 0 c	45 ± 1 a	31 ± 0 b
Maximum weight before prepupal stage (mg)	225.4 ± 7.3	183.3 ± 6.6	230.8 ± 26.9
Overall degradation (D)	0.46 ± 0.01 c	0.52 ± 0.01 b	0.96 ± 0.00 a
Waste reduction index (WRI)	3.06 ± 0.06 a	1.78 ± 0.07 c	2.35 ± 0.00 b

Values are reported as mean ± SD. In the same row different letters denote significant differences. One-way-ANOVA and Tukey’s post-hoc test were carried out by using IBM SPSS Statistics version 25.