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Category Archives: Vermiculture and BSF composting

refreshing the colony

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 [...]

Posted 03 May 2009 † Jerry § Raising black soldier fly larvae § The BioPod ‡ Comments (9) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Black solidier fly larvae-variation in growth rate

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 [...]

Posted 24 September 2008 † Jerry § My first year raising BSF § Raising black soldier fly larvae § Understanding black soldier flies ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

My new BIOPOD™ by ProtaCulture™

After working with and blogging about black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) for over a year I finally have one of the first BioPods. For the past year I’ve been getting by with my homemade unit and I’m looking forward to testing this product. With that previous experience I’m pretty familiar with the shortcomings of [...]

Posted 11 July 2008 † Jerry § Raising black soldier fly larvae § The BioPod ‡ Comments (13) ° Tagged: ,

Earthworms + black soldier fly larvae = composting²

Composting with black soldier fly larvae and composting with earthworms (vermicomposting) are not competing technologies as much as they are complimentary. I’m not speaking from personal experience or research, but I believe it because I was told this by Dr. Paul Olivier, the inventor of the BioPod and one of the pioneers of [...]

Posted 09 June 2008 † Jerry § ‡ Comments (57) ° Tagged: