Insect Production Worker
usdaEdinburg (TX)
About the role
Duties:
The duties may include, but are not limited to: Prepares and weighs out different rearing media and diet ingredients. Operates and/or synchronizes multiple pieces of equipment for preparation of insect diets. Assembles and disassembles production chambers. Cleans the chambers and the surrounding of the dispersal facility. Provides feed to insects, controls temperature and humidity, and harvests pupae or adults, records collection data, and verifies that the data is correct. Separates insects into categories such as sex and/or species and controls them to prevent escape or intermingling. Observes insect collections for obvious changes of life cycles, deaths, and general activity, and reports observations to the supervisor. Determines daily production of adults and pupae by determining the average weight and inputting that data into facility database. Prepares disinfectant, for cleaning and sanitation of equipment for rearing of various insect life stages and disinfects based on established protocols.
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