Black Soldier Fly Production Part 5 Feedstocks 

The reason they don’t crawl off when it’s dry is because they can’t get any grip. Put some in a dry jar and they can’t crawl up the side but add water and they can stick to the side and climb right up.

Excellent video! I learned a lot from this! Now I am going to watch all of them. Thanks for this great info! Very helpful!

I love this channel. I keep rewatching these videos.

Finally a use for cat poo!

Loved this series, really inspired to try attract some BSF this Spring. I've been really interested in breaking down more of my house hold waste for the garden. Will go nicly with my worm farm :)

Go to the farmers market and ask the strawberry vendor at the end of the day for the bad berries.

Thanks, this is a ten across the board.

The 5% residue would make excellent feedstock for mushrooms and other fungi.

Can they eat unused coffee grounds or only used coffee grounds? I'm working on making a list of foods. They eat high value and soft foods and cooked foods FIRST. +Coffee Grounds +Chicken feed +Cat food kibble +Dead animals (such as armadillo, gator, but not their bones or scales) +Banana peels +Bananas +Fish (cooked or raw, prefer cooked) +Vegetables (not celery or parsley)+Tomatoes +They will eat Onions. +Romaine lettuce +Pig manure, cow manure, human manure (beware of getting e. coli, salmonella and diseases, not recommended beyond compost toilets) but you will have a lot of waste. +stale oatmeal +stale chips +duckweed ----- ?Calcium Carbonate? ?Squash ? ?Cantaloupe? ?Carrots? ------ They will NOT eat: -Fruit rinds -wood -grass -high lignin/fiber -Bones -Alligator scales.

BSFL can feed on animal poop..!! can it feel on human poop too..? Can we think about Faecal sludge treatment using BSFL?

Wow!! Thank You Karl Warkomski for all that you do... Love to you and your family

valuable, valuable information! Thank you!

What about donkey manure? It is closer to cow than horse, very moisture high when excreted

I'm from India... Tq a lot for information, keep doing

The waste from the bins can be fermented for chitinase production and used as a natural pesticide or fed into a methane digester to produce methane from the chitin cast offs.

This is really enlightening ! Waiting impatiently for the next one :)

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What info is out there on production of BSF in COLD climates? I'm in South Dakota, so its a zone 4. Our temps are NEVER in the "critical temps" of high temps, but I'm curious what the "critical" would be in low temps? I've got a colony in a terrarium currently, determining what the plausibility is of raising them inside in the winter months. What wondering if you can direct me to any research?

Loved your session, thanks for sharing this with the world. You talked about juice waste, will the added white sugar in the juice waste create any issues?

I wonder if scrable eggs is good to feed them and rice too

Anyone from 7 years ago can share his experience with me ? Love the content

will they eat SCOBYs from Kombucha?

Sunlight was mentioned as a way to pasteurize the grubs. If farming was done large scale, would freeze-drying and vacuum packaging provide any additional benefit? Also, what would a standard shelf life for sundried grubs be?

I have a nearly unlimited source of leftover donuts. My chickens don't seem to like the donuts (I'm guessing it has something to do with the amount of sugar), would this be a good food source for BSF?

I couldnt understand properly abiut duckweed, i heard its Good tô feed chickens but is it also Good for BSF LARVAE ?

Wait. You ONLY feed Red Worms 1-week-soaked cardboard/paper and grit (sand)?! I thought they require other foods like banana peels and calcium carbonate, like pulverized egg shells or calcium carbonate powder. Have you had Red Worms for over a year with just cardboard and sand?

Will they eat acorns?

Food Grade 5-gallon screw-on style lids are like $8-$9. It's a horrible price, but 100% worth it.

Can you add a little hemp bedding to absorb excess moisture?

I am wondering if the GMO of the feedstock you feed to the BSFL, can be still be listed as a certified organic feed. While feeding it to your organic chickens?

I produce rodents on a commercial scale and I’m looking for a way to reduce the waste they produce, the waste is a combination of rodent droppings (60%), pine shavings(30%), lucerne hay(9%) and wild bird seed(1%). Would a mix of this, coffee grinds and food scraps work for BSF?

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Will they eat grass (as in meadow grass like sheep)?

Can i use quail waste to feed black soldier fly new larvae ?. The faeces is very dry. Godfrey Damnyag from Ghana.

I live in Missouri we dont have bsf here if i were to get some larvae and put them in a bin would they grow to flys and continue the process?

what about tea leaves??

I like your work but where are you in particular

Great series! What about chaff from rice hulling?

After watching this and other BSFL videos, I keep hearing roughly 20% conversion. And Part 5 ~24min suggests 5% waste. So where is the other 75% of mass going to? If it isn't in the solids, do we really have 75% liquid or gas?

Mine is too wet, what is the best way to dry it out, it has good drainage.

Also is bread good to add to keep the frass/effluecence from becoming too wet? Thank you in advance of your help.

Will the BSF consume Salvinia minima?

Where can you buy the bucket at

I'm considering creating a black fly / cricket brooder beneath my elevated chicken coop using manure as a feed source . Any thoughts ?

26:39 I'm using my Flexeril eyes ft stuff off of a deer head that I'm going to do a European mount on there great for that

how well does this work in winter?

You should ferment the waste first with probiotics (EM Bokashi method) before feed it to the BSF.

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What type of litter do you use for your cats??

Hi I'm living in south France in a région where we have a lot of duck waste, skin, fat... everyting left after the duck is prosess. do you think if it done industriel you cold feed those?

At minute 4:00 is he saying "Duckweed" "duckwheet" or "buckwheet"....? Thank you

What about seaweed or algae?

This video is old af and I'm still learning from it

Will BSF eat my mother in law, if I uh...... nevermind.

Will they eat corn and rice bran

Can BSFL eat dairy, raw and pasteurized?

Anyone knows if BSF eat bread and other bakery foods?

I want to start a (very) small BSF farm in india .You can send me information about system .& any contract farming company or bayer

Where did chapter 6 go?