Black Soldier Fly breeding

This YouTube video posted by Katharina Unger and entitled Farm432: Insect Breeding demonstrates domestic scale production of  Black Soldier Flies (Hermetia illucens AKA BSF). While the description (below) recommends Black Soldier Flies as an alternative source of protein for human consumption, for those of us who aren’t quite up to that they’re certainly a good option for supplementing fish food.

Farm 432 enables people to turn against the dysfunctional system of current meat production by growing their own protein source at home. After 432 hours, 1 gram of black soldier fly eggs turn into 2.4 kilogram of larvae protein, larvae that self-harvest and fall clean and ready to eat into a harvest bucket.
This scenario creates not only a more sustainable future of food production, but suggests new lifestyles and food cultures.

Black soldier fly adults don´t eat, the larvae can be fed on bio waste, therefore the production almost costs no water or CO2. Black soldier fly larvae are one of the most efficient protein converters in insects, containing up to 42% of protein, a lot of calcium and amino acids.