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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 § Vermiculture and BSF composting ‡ Comments (9) ° Also 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 § Vermiculture and BSF composting ‡ Comments (13) ° Also tagged:

getting started – Attracting the BSF

To establish black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) you first need to attract the adult (winged) females so they can lay their eggs. To do this you need to bait them with some type of food.

Types of food for baiting BSF
You may use almost any food scraps, but I’m experimenting with different types to see which [...]

Posted 28 May 2008 † Jerry § Raising black soldier fly larvae ‡ Comments (10) ° Also tagged: ,

My First Attempt to Attract Black Soldier Flies – May 2007

As soon as I realized that black soldier flies were present around my home I put some food scraps into a bucket with a lid and cut a few small holes into the sides.

BSF will crawl through a small opening to access a food source for their eggs. They don’t eat in their winged stage [...]

Posted 24 May 2008 † Jerry § My first year raising BSF ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: