New research demonstrates how using airflow can keep black soldier fly larvae, an important animal protein source, from overheating while feeding as a collective. Black soldier fly larvae devour food ...

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection will use a natural agent to kill black fly larvae on the Lehigh River starting Tuesday. That means "death from above" for the flies, but other ...

As the city’s garbage landfill at New Carmen is now way beyond capacity, a local firm is suggesting they could help out ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the Black Soldier Fly Rosannette Quesada Hidalgo Often people kill flies or at ...

A corn-fed insect could provide North Dakota’s next value-added ag product. An investment firm is developing a plan to bring an insect farm to North Dakota, with protein-rich larvae supplying the ...

The figures illustrate protein digestion in the digestive system of BSFL and the function of the nutrient AA transporter HiNATt. Normally, BSFL excrete excess AAs through HiNATt (A). In contrast, ...

LIMURU, Kenya – Rotten bananas? Mushy avocados? Pulped oranges? Talash Huijbers wants them all. The 25-year-old is the founder of Insectipro, a Kenyan farm rearing black soldier fly larvae for animal ...

IN the bustling heart of Harare’s Glen View and Budiriro communities, where the stench of uncollected garbage often lingers, a beacon of hope has emerged. The Community Water Alliance (CWA), in ...

If you’re one of those people who composts everything you can think of because you want to build up your garden soil, you might – like me this summer – learn to love the maggots of black soldier flies ...

Over 2.1 million black flies are growing in the University of Georgia Riverbend Research Laboratory North. Elmer Gray, the project’s director, currently oversees and operates the Black Fly Research ...

For most urban dwellers, flies are a nuisance to be kept in check with screens, swatters and traps. But in the Mukuru area of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, they are being cultivated for a surprising ...