Students at the Gibbs Permaculture Research and Demonstration Site have been researching the potential of Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) as a biological means to manage pre and post consumer food ...

Petroleum fly larvae aren’t picky: They’ll turn any dying insect into a meal. When the maggots sense an insect sinking into their home, they wriggle over to it. Then, they scrape at its hard ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Entomology Laboratory confirmed that larvae were caper fruit flies, which belong to the Mediterranean fruit fly, Oriental fruit fly, melon fly, and Mexican fruit ...

InsectiPro uses the larvae of black soldier flies to break down more than 30 tons of discarded fruit each day. The fruit scraps come in from markets, juice companies, and breweries, and are then ...

A content creator shared some advice about how to deal with drain flies after seeing a "really gross" Reddit post about them.

More information: N.L. Dam et al, Determination of microplastics in reared black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) using polarised light optical microscopy, Journal of Insects as Food and ...

"The larvae of black soldier flies feed voraciously on various types of organic matter, including food waste, and from our observation, reduce the weight of the waste by about 50 per cent - and at ...

The founder and boss of a company called Full Circle Biotechnology, he is in charge of 20 million black soldier fly larvae. Based at a small, indoor facility on the outskirts of Bangkok ...

A Saskatoon-based company is domesticating black soldier flies because it says their larvae could be used in pet food or aquaculture. NRGene Canada was started in 2020, with a fairly unique ...