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	<title>Black Soldier Fly Blog &#187; Understanding black soldier flies</title>
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	<description>Bio-Composting with Black Soldier Fly larvae - Fascinating, Responsible and Rewarding</description>
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		<title>Black soldier fly composting smells good&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2010/03/21/black-soldier-fly-composting-smells-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding black soldier flies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you added the food shown above to a properly functioning BSF composter it would smell like those foods more than anything else. I have experienced this many times. The most dramatic instance was when I added an entire loaf of stale cinnamon bread to my 5 gallon DIY bucket composter which I keep by the back door of our house. I walked by the composter a few hours after adding the bread and I was surprised by the delicious aroma of cinnamon. It's not that the odor was just tolerable, it was appealing.]]></description>
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		<title>Agricultural Innovations Inc BSF podcast</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2010/02/12/agricultural-innovations-inc-bsf-podcast/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2010/02/12/agricultural-innovations-inc-bsf-podcast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Raising black soldier fly larvae]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ll find very interesting. The Agroinnovations Podcast Episode #78: The Black Soldier Fly (Part I) &#8220;The Black Soldier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appreciating Bug Guide.net</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/09/26/appreciating-bug-guide-dot-net/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding black soldier flies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting and informative site. Visit BugGuide.net]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Black solidier fly larvae-variation in growth rate</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/09/24/black-soldier-fly-larvae-variation-growth-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/09/24/black-soldier-fly-larvae-variation-growth-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My first year raising BSF]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Vermiculture and BSF composting]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/?p=339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;t keep detailed records, but there is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mythbusting black soldier flies</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/09/15/mythbusting-black-soldier-flies/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/09/15/mythbusting-black-soldier-flies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding black soldier flies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilizing black soldier fly larvae]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more than 100,000 species of flies, but in most people&#8217;s minds a fly is a fly, period. The species most people automatically think of are the house flies, blow flies, and bottle flies. Our disdain for these pests is understandable because they are known transmitters of human diseases, but non-pest black soldier flies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Black soldier fly composting  in the frigid north</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/08/16/bsf-composting-in-the-frigid-north/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Raising black soldier fly larvae]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actually, this post applies to any region that has seasonal temperatures below that which support BSF mating. This encompasses the entire continental U.S. except for a few extreme southern areas. 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Black Soldier Fly cultivation &#8211; &#8220;nuts and bolts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/08/06/biosystems-design-weblog/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/08/06/biosystems-design-weblog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this post is to feature a blog that is valuable to anyone researching black soldier flies (Hermetia illucens). It&#8217;s called BioSystems Design and below is an excerpt from their &#8220;about&#8221; page. About BioSystems Design. BioSystems Design LLC. is dedicated to the transformation of what was previously considered waste into valuable products.  Our institutional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the black soldier fly challenge</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/07/29/the-problem-with-black-soldier-flies/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/07/29/the-problem-with-black-soldier-flies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding black soldier flies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilizing black soldier fly larvae]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) represent the most logical method for dealing with the constant stream of putrescent waste that humans create. Putrescent waste is anything that gets putrid (rots) and is mostly wasted food.  BSF aren&#8217;t magic but it&#8217;s hard to imagine a much more efficient solution to a growing problem. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cutest black soldier fly researcher EVER!</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/07/08/cutest-black-soldier-fly-researcher-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/07/08/cutest-black-soldier-fly-researcher-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding black soldier flies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sorry Dr. Sheppard, Dr. Olivier and Dr. Tomberlin&#8230;) Alana is hands down the cutest of all black soldier fly researchers. Apparently her folks forgot to tell her that BSF larvae are yucky! Good parents. Anyone concerned about Alana handling BSF larvae may want to read this which references scientific studies showing that black soldier flies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>black soldier fly emerging from it&#8217;s pupa</title>
		<link>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/07/06/black-soldier-fly-emerging-from-pupa/</link>
		<comments>http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/2008/07/06/black-soldier-fly-emerging-from-pupa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jerry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Understanding black soldier flies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I spent over six hours shooting video to capture this five second long event. I&#8217;m not really sure what value it has other than general coolness. After exiting the pupa it ran to the outside of the bowl and spent about 10 minutes inflating it&#8217;s wings. Soon I hope to record that process [...]]]></description>
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