Starting and maintaining a colony
Frank Aragona of The Agroinnovations Podcast interviews me about black soldier fly culturing
Agroinnovations.com is a great source of information regarding sustainable agriculture. In addition to this podcast you can find 77 previous episodes that I think you’ll find very interesting.
The Agroinnovations Podcast
Episode #78: The Black Soldier Fly (Part I)
“The Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) has [...]
This do-it-yourself bucket composter is designed to be an introduction to using black soldier fly grubs to quickly break down household food waste.
Starting my third year with the black soldier fly
I’m going into this season with a small colony made up of grubs that were laid last fall. Where I live the winters are mild so it was fairly easy to maintain the colony through the cool months. At the end of last summer my BioPod was [...]
I recently collected a newly laid clutch of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens)eggs for a photographic study of their development and I isolated three of them for the photos. I placed the three individuals and the remaining few hundred BSF from that clutch into identical containers. I didn’t keep detailed records, but there is an [...]
Black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens) are common in tropical and subtropical regions, but their range extends into many northern states of the continental U.S. You can easily operate a BSF bio-composting unit in northern states during the warm months, but you can also maintain the colony through the colder months with a little extra effort.
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