China Connection
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I am off and running for the season with my Black Soldier Flies for summer here in Australia. My Bantam babies go mad over them. It is so much fun to watch how they carry on. The very first second I introduced them into their diet they went crazy for them. They didn't need two second to think about eating them.
Yep, yesterday I added quite a lot of fresh Azolla to my maggots and 99% was gone by today. I through in a rosters head and a bit of neck. That didn't get touched the fist day but was gone the second.
I find that I get the maggots without any egg laying material.
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“I absolutely think there will be applications [for the soldier fly] in the human food market,” said EnviroFlight’s Koutsos. “The challenge is getting over the cringe factor.”
One potential path to human consumption is via insect-based protein powders, which can be mixed with other foods, thus lessening the ick factor. Several companies are already doing this with crickets.
“There’s been a lot of effort put into cricket flour or mealworms for protein ingredients for everything from pasta to cookies to chips,” Tomberlin said.
He expects soldier fly protein to follow a similar path. “When you walk in these facilities in the next 10 years, we’ll look back at this era and say we were just getting started.”
Yep, yesterday I added quite a lot of fresh Azolla to my maggots and 99% was gone by today. I through in a rosters head and a bit of neck. That didn't get touched the fist day but was gone the second.
I find that I get the maggots without any egg laying material.
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“I absolutely think there will be applications [for the soldier fly] in the human food market,” said EnviroFlight’s Koutsos. “The challenge is getting over the cringe factor.”
One potential path to human consumption is via insect-based protein powders, which can be mixed with other foods, thus lessening the ick factor. Several companies are already doing this with crickets.
“There’s been a lot of effort put into cricket flour or mealworms for protein ingredients for everything from pasta to cookies to chips,” Tomberlin said.
He expects soldier fly protein to follow a similar path. “When you walk in these facilities in the next 10 years, we’ll look back at this era and say we were just getting started.”
