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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: , , , , ,

Collecting the immature larvae

This method doesn’t involve the dark, prepupal larvae which are self-harvesting
The coffee colored black soldier fly grubs (prepupae) are the final stage before pupation into adult BSF (Hermetia illucens). 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 [...]

Posted 25 July 2008 † Jerry § Raising black soldier fly larvae § Utilizing black soldier fly larvae ‡ Comments (22) ° Also tagged: