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Mythbusting black soldier flies

There are more than 100,000 species of flies, but in most people’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 [...]

Posted 15 September 2008 † Jerry § Understanding black soldier flies ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Take the black soldier fly challenge

I believe black soldier fly larvae 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’t magic but it’s hard to imagine a much more efficient solution to a growing problem.

Bio-conversion
The process [...]

Posted 29 July 2008 † Jerry § Understanding black soldier flies ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged:

Collecting the immature larvae

This method doesn’t involve the dark, prepupal larvae which are self-harvesting
The coffee colored BSF larvae (prepupae) are the final stage before pupation into adult BSF. To our advantage they are programmed by nature to crawl away from the food source in search of a suitable pupation site. In a properly designed BSF unit these larvae [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 † Jerry § Raising black soldier fly larvae ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Feeding black soldier fly larvae to Redear Sunfish

I’ve been feeding BSF larvae to my redear sunfish (shellcrackers) everyday for about a week and they are taking them with enthusiasm. They have a preference for the immature larvae over the dark prepupal larvae, but they still eat the dark ones pretty well. I think the prepupal larvae might be more foreign to them [...]

Posted 23 July 2008 † Jerry § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Up the food chain - feeding black soldier fly larvae to other animals

In my previous post (below) I described how a person can develop something like affection for a colony of black soldier fly larvae (BSFL). If that’s the case then why do i enjoy feeding the larvae to other animals? A big part of it is the same pleasure I mentioned that you get from feeding [...]

Posted 08 June 2008 † Jerry § ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: ,