Table 2.

Mean values (expressed as mg/g protein) for essential and semi-essential amino acids of BSF prepupae that had been reared on the different groups of substrates.

	All-Year (n = 21)	Summer (n = 13)	Autumn (n = 15)	CTR (n = 3)
His	33.50 a	37.86 ab	39.00 b	37.00 ab
Ile	42.89 a	43.11 a	44.10 a	45.39 a
Leu	71.24 a	77.66 bc	79.88 c	74.00 ab
Val	60.49 a	60.25 a	66.09 b	62.43 a
Lys	62.22 a	62.93 a	51.73 b	62.44 a
Cys	18.17 a	20.42 a	20.14 a	20.70 a
Met	18.37 a	17.54 a	19.16 a	18.40 a
Phe	41.69 a	40.03 a	46.47 b	42.53 ab
Tyr	61.45 a	63.16 ab	69.67 b	64.13 ab
Thr	39.50 ab	37.36 a	40.58 b	39.30 ab
Trp	14.80 a	15.76 a	15.84 a	17.60 a

Values followed by different letters within one row are significantly different (one-way ANOVA, Tukey post hoc test, p < 0.05).