The effects of the dietary replacement of soybean meal with yellow mealworm larvae (Tenebrio molitor) on the growth, nutrient digestibility and nitrogen output of fattening rabbits

•Dietary replacement of soybean meal with yellow mealworm larvae (TM) in rabbits.•Losses of nitrogen in faeces were not affected by the dietary treatment.•Lower losses of nitrogen in urine were observed in rabbits fed the TM diet.•Rabbits effectively utilized the diet containing 30 g yellow TM/kg.