One day harvest of mature black soldier fly larvae

[@heathergustafson4237]

Thank heaven the farmers are coming back around to no chemical food for their feed and making compost. There is way too much food waste in this country, restaurants ,grocery stores that now can be used for a great solution for farmers. Love it

[@unclefexxer6441]

LOL Chicken's like "HEY, WHAT THE HELL'S TAKIN SO LONG, CLOWN? FORK IT OVER!!!"

[@ratedmark4704]

That chicken and babies are pretty cute.

[@nupur0104]

I love your channel. I have recently moved to a very humid place and my compost pit is teeming with the soldier fly's larvae. Was very alarmed until finding your videos and now the hundreds of larvae populating my compost pit are my best friends!

[@moniquevandeplas5210]

You could start selling them and have your own business. Unless of course you have chickens you are feeding them to

[@Biophotogenesis]

I ate lunch while watching this. Yummy

[@onfireforJESUS75]

Your chickens look so healthy these must be very good for them.

[@TeriLaFaye]

wow! that is so cool! I am going to get mine more organized like yours! thanks for the upload! subscribed!

[@tonybucks5709]

So you also breed disgusting stuff like this guy? Your house must be so clean...

[@NWRedworms]

right now I get alot of melons and I clean up where the chickens spread their food. It's mixed with a little dirt, but the larvae go right through it. I have several sources for food waste for feeding my redworms and during the summer I get enough to also feed the larvae.

[@বাংলাকৃষিবাংলা]

Nice video good job

[@Atyls101]

Good work dude...

[@trmwyldshade1482]

3:20 Now that put a smile on my face!😃

[@mohammadyusuf1299]

Great 👍👍👍👍👍 in the last 5 years So many peoples do it in indonesia... go green

[@RameyRocks]

I found these in my little compost bin today and was totally grossed out and started searching for what they could be. I was a little concerned but now I know it's ok. It's my ffirst compost bin and I planted my first garden

[@PeterSedesse]

give chickens access to your compost bin and it is a double win.

[@paulawaldrep5286]

Great catch👍

[@BlackSoldierFlyPakistan]

we all hoping that it would be a great industry.. however we need to network and form a common forum so that big players let us also survive and grow

[@ronnalscammahorn8002]

EXILENT , thinking I'll be using your method at my place in the Philippines . Ty TyVm sir.

[@mahmoudbouafia7893]

Hi mate how much is one ton( 1000kg) of chicken Feed in Philippines 🇵🇭

[@qualitytrent]

awesome video, congrats on the big crawl off.

[@gator70422]

Awesome set up !!

[@tory464]

💚👍♻️nice set up

[@alaskansourdoughwormsgarde4392]

Yummy. Not! Know those chickens love them. Just a shout to let you know that the worms I purchased from you two years ago are now up to six migrating totes plus three nurseries. May get some Euros come spring since I am in Alaska. Hope you will have some by then.

[@tresav673]

Sounds like your pouring cereal lol

[@TeriLaFaye]

the chickens love it like cereal!

[@reneebrown2968]

What I would like to know is how much food scraps you feed them daily, the bins that is

[@bobbieholmes6479]

Hello from Texas. We built the ideal BSF box. Saturday evening, placed soaked wood chips in the bottom, then wet rabbit manure, then food scraps and waited for the flies! Next morning, Sunday, checked, and to our horror there were six billion hungry fire ants in residence! Help! Should we leave the experiment as is? Dump the whole thing into a tub of soapy water before burying it? Start over entirely with the legs of the unit in water? Surely other folks have ants attracted to the food stuffs. Somebody make a suggestion quick! Thanks.

[@richardjunker2825]

I think your mistake was the food scraps. When I built mine (I'm in San Antonio) I didn't add any large amounts of kitchen waste until I had a good amount of BSF larvae in there. Our bin is just s 48x48x24 box on the ground with ramps leading out so the grubs can get out and continue the cycle. All I use them for is composting.

[@armedspin]

These larvae are no larvae but prepupae, the moving stadium before pupating. Larvae are white. Nice breeding setup.

[@NWRedworms]

That is a good day about 3 out of 7 days

[@Fatwa-AgroFisheries]

Please give me a video of how you made this box. How to make a house in the shape of a pupa?

[@NWRedworms]

www.northwestredworms.com/all/black-soldier-fly-larvae-bin-instructions

[@TheLordHumungus]

Thanks for the response. I have had limited success with regular uncoated plywood in a homemade bin I made. They didn't seem to want to migrate up the ramp. Not sure what the issue was.

[@Wagohowardhanahou]

TheLordHumungus - light. They go towards light. If you out a tube in a hole they will go up it and drop out. Good luck

[@TheLordHumungus]

Awesome setup. I have been experimenting with BSF raising for a while now, and I just stumbled across your videos. I made a bin with a wooden ramp, and didn't get a lot of success with the crawl off. They seem to like something that can maintain a more moist surface. Are your ramps coated with anything, and what is the angle you are using, roughly?

[@NWRedworms]

I use regular plywood with nothing special. When they migrate there are so many that they are pushing each other up the ramp. the angle is 30 degrees

[@lukestevenson7475]

Thanks for the wonderful video! Do you have a "love cage that you put the pupated larvae in until they hatch and lay more eggs?

[@NWRedworms]

Yes we have created a very successful table version tent that allows you to run multiple tents in a small area. insectsatlarge.com/allcategoryfarmproducts/insects/blacksoldierflybreedingtent

[@samshahzan]

that's just amazing. This might sound stupid... how do we get only soldier flies to lay egg on the garbage. Well ther could be other insects too right???

[@sandyjoao4489]

Nice to hear mama hen callg her chick's to eat. Ha ha .its been a while since I heard them

[@gavnonadoroge3092]

chickens are ready to eat

[@TheLordHumungus]

one more question, what's your source for food for the grubs? Even with a small bin I can go through a couple pounds of material a day, so I can only imagine how much you must be feeding them to harvest a couple pounds of mature grubs every day.

[@reyanvillanueva652]

sir can you show how your stractures work?

[@antonioalmanza6276]

Do have a video on how to make composting box

[@claudiagamino6499]

Do you have a video on how to make those

[@howardkaemerer]

recommend weighing the blue buckets then then weigh the buckets filled and figure the difference. great design. what do you use to attract the flies? what part of the country is this?

[@RonGordon]

You have good luck with BSF I live in NM about 6500 ft . i left some wheat out to see if it would atract BSF have never seen any. ? is if I purchase Larva and have my ben in grenhouse will the flies mature then keep the bed going need enough to supplement 50 chickens and 500 fish

[@solfeinberg437]

Very cool - you're taking what, vegetable scraps?, and turning it into high quality chicken feed and building soil at the same time! All those crawled out in a day? I've got to make a set up like this. I'm new to chickens and relatively new to gardening. I'm going to go see if you have some how to vids and exactly what that setup is doing. I've seen some where the larvae crawl out - when they're ready to be eaten - and drop right into the chicken coop. Checkens are probably just sitting there staring at that tube like a junkie at the dealers house. Come on, come on man, I need my fix. I was watching somebody feed mosquito larvae to fish. There are just so many opportunities to grow high quality protein - and I'm a friggin' vegan. But it's so ecological. All of our solutions are biological and low tech. Or even just physical - like gravity fed irrigation.

[@emmanuelhernandez1307]

Un ĺ

[@ApothecaryGrant]

What ratio do you allow to survive ? You need a generation of breeders .

[@reneebrown2968]

The great news is any that survive the chickens will reseed your your farms

[@83JustSomeGuy]

Sorry, I have one more question. How do you go about harvesting the compost? And do you use it for your garden or toss it into the vermicompost? Thanks!

[@moniquevandeplas5210]

I was wondering this too

[@flos617]

How much food per weight do the larves need per day? Thank you

[@da_ra_sol]

How many chickens can you feed in a day with a pound of larvae?

[@escapefromny2012]

What I don't understand is how you get the flies to go inside the pen in the first place, to lay eggs. If you have a tarp to keep hatched flies in, how do the first flies get in to lay eggs?

[@ruyvieira104]

Add orange and they'll come

[@scottblackburn954]

How often do you clean the bin? I have a large build up of processed grain and compost material.

[@NWRedworms]

usually twice a year/season, but this year was not as warm so I only emptied it once after it was all done.

[@TheBritishbeeman]

Can this be done in the uk ??

[@exclusivefrenchies343]

Wait, I need the instructions to build this contraption 😍

[@NWRedworms]

www.northwestredworms.com/allcategoryfarmproducts/black-soldier-fly-larvae-bin-instructions

[@v1slayer297]

can you please make a video for initial harvest

[@NWRedworms]

I may move some into the shop for the winter. They will stay dormant until spring.

[@rolandoriggio5026]

Do you have the plans for how you made these bins?

[@NWRedworms]

www.northwestredworms.com/all/black-soldier-fly-larvae-bin-instructions

[@83JustSomeGuy]

How long will the larvae keep once harvested? I've read somewhere that it's possible to freeze them and feed them to chickens later. Have you found this to be true? I'd like to consider that for winter months.

[@NWRedworms]

I have been able to keep them alive in a cool dark place for over 6 months.

[@83JustSomeGuy]

Cool indeed. Thanks!

[@quantumenergysolutions9128]

Hi Buddy, Great system! But aren't you concerned the chipboard will rot?

[@Channel-uv8dn]

do you have drain holes in the bottom to keep the bin from getting rancid?

[@HeavyDemir]

yes, the prosess produces copious amounts of liquid that needs to be drained, this will make it less stinky and the fluid can be composted.

[@MsTokies]

how do you save that? do you freeze it

[@dashizzle]

I get shivers when I see larvae. I hate insects! I am curious to know how long 2 pounds of this larvae lasts your chickens(as food for them)

[@NWRedworms]

dashizzle1985 It is just a supplement. each chicken would eat 1/2 lb per day given the choice. I limit them to 100 or less per day.

[@IAIMIAIWIKIAIMIAIWI]

Awesome dude

[@MsTokies]

have you got any problems with flying birds trying to get into the bins?

[@ryanprijic1343]

How many chickens do you feed? And what else do you feed them?

[@NWRedworms]

I let them forage for most of their food. The larva is for the protein. I do not have that many chickens as i did when I did this video.

[@royphilip5043]

How to make it

[@vilasshetfale9639]

Nice bro

[@NWRedworms]

When they are ready they will migrate. If they do not get enough food or if it is not warm enough they will wait.

[@moosefactory133]

Yummy. Time to fire up the grill

[@RubyWu1994]

How much (kg) of food scraps can one device of BSF consume one day?

[@NWRedworms]

+Ruby Wu I would estimate 5 to 10 times their weight daily.

[@RubyWu1994]

oh... approximately how heavy are the larvaes in one device?

[@NWRedworms]

4 to 5 lbs

[@alexgiertych5101]

What to u do with those maggots that crawled out and how do u get more to come back?

[@scottportissr3612]

Coin Collector100 adult flies lay eggs

[@silverlom60]

how big are the flies if the larva is so big?

[@pandorasangel2747]

I seen them around my house sometimes, they don't get that much bigger shockingly although they look sorta like wasps

[@asanoen1777]

Great video are you harvesting 4 1/2 LBS that same amount from those two bins on average ever day ?

[@WILPY007]

Greetings, harvest you got in this video, is of few days ?, thanks

[@paulgeldreich1890]

How do you keep out the dirty and disease-carrying ordinary houseflies?

[@chironchangnoi]

As I understand it, the BSFL will eat any fly eggs or maggots that come in, and prefer a different sort of environment (less aerobic) anyway.

[@NWRedworms]

The larvae secrete an enzyme that deters other flies from laying eggs in the area

[@kurniyadimuttaqin8061]

can u explain the box design ? so that larvae comes out without any dirt

[@shammydammy2610]

They climb up the incline, which has an upside down V walls to scoot them over the middle, they hit the edge and then they fall out...into the waiting bucket

[@rendriaarsyan322]

i have been looking for this solution for a loongg timee! Grest video! I want to ask you a few questions, 1. How much of larvae that 1 chicken need to eat? and how much food scraps to harvest that much of larva? 2. Is there any other food that u gave to them other than larva? 3. Can we contain the BSF inside that little container only? they will mate inside of it right? Thank you

[@NWRedworms]

Good questions, I do not have the answer to them.

[@HeavyDemir]

on feedipedia dot org /node /16388 you can see the nutrient breakdown. In short : by weight the mature larva is 42% protein.

[@r.i.t.randominterestingthi4031]

good question for no 2 and no 3, its clear here u didnt do any research at all

[@deasunja1367]

Hi Mr. Arsyan, I estimate needing this much BSFl at 42 % protein live weight (in addition to the rest of their balanced diet) For 300 Layers at different Life Stages Week 0 - 6 = 8.16 lbs per day Week 7 -12 = 12.24 lbs per day Weeks 13 - 20 = 11.22 lbs per day Daily for 300 Layers = 90 lbs of feed of which 34 % in my particular ration is the 42 % protein concentrate BSFL or soy (this quantity needed varies based on how much protein is in your other ingredients like wheat or milo or corn etc... but in a mix of milo, barley, oats, aragonite for Calcium, Fertrell Nutribalancer, alfalfa meal and Fertrell enzymes, I'm looking at needing 30.6 lbs of BSFL a day for 300 chickens which EQUALS 0.102 POUNDS OF BSFL PER DAY PER ADULT LAYING CHICKEN. Now if you want to try just feeding them BSFL and whatever they can forage on I am no expert but read that the egg might be not as ideal nutritionally in terms of fat or something and what else I'm not sure but there is literature on this. Harvey Ussery a real Chicken Farmer didn't sound concerned about chickens overeating on BSFL. He would agree I think that a balance is best. Variety, emulating nature where chickens eat plants and bugs etc.... and the biota even in compost like Karl Hammer does in Vermont (compost with excellent amount of food scraps in it) where he raises hundreds of egg layers on compost piles with no supplemental grain, and as he says about the food scraps he collects locally, a piece of lettuce has a much different nutritional profile than a piece of meat.

[@ConcernedMushroom]

has anyone successfully dried the BSF grubs for use in winter months when production slows? If so would you mind sharing your wisdom?

[@NWRedworms]

I keep them alive in a cool place. they do not need to be fed and should stay alive all winter.

[@ConcernedMushroom]

I'll try the basement....they won't pupate into the adult fly if you just keep them cool?

[@NWRedworms]

right

[@sanaids]

do you get all those worms every single day? or just some seasons?

[@NWRedworms]

If the compost is ready they will find it.

[@isaacminiard635]

Do you harvest about that much every day?!

[@shana2887]

How do you prepare for storage?

[@NWRedworms]

I don't.

[@shana2887]

@@NWRedworms Alright thanks. See I live in a super cold climate and I don't think they'd survive the winter. So, I wanted to raise them during the summer when hens are free ranging, store them to feed during those winter months. Appreciate the information you offered and the quick reply.

[@NWRedworms]

@@shana2887 I grow them all year in a trailer so I don't store them. I have heard you can freeze them but I have not tried.

[@lydao7905]

How can i attract black solier fly ?

[@moniquevandeplas5210]

I love this video. You are so organized. Every time I watch Black Soldier Fly videos I get heepie jeepies but am fascinated too. I want to start this as a type of composting but am in Vancouver, BC and have no access to tents to keep things ventilated and dry in summer. I am curious if its possible to buy stocks anywhere in this? Your set up is amazing! Your chickens are happy...laughed when that one first came around like feed me...then flew up to get grubs like feed me now!

[@NWRedworms]

Many people buy them to start their own stock. All ages work for that.

[@NWRedworms]

best to start with lots of young larvae and a small amount of pupa. The young will put out scent to attract the flies back to the compost.

[@bmsmith5UB]

A few quick questions since you are in a similar hardiness zone as me (Finger Lakes), and you seem to be doing very well here! 1) Is this production brought in for winter or is this seasonal? And what would be the lowest temp the BSF can handle. I will hopefully have a greenhouse they can overwinter in. 2) How much food scraps/partial compost are you having to feed them every week? I'm guessing you have more than kitchen scraps going into those bins. 3) what is the sq ft of those two bins combined? It could be the video makes them look smaller but it appears as if ~12-15 sq ft is producing on average 2-3lbs per day of quality fish/bird food?? That's amazing, sign me up! Thanks in advance!

[@NWRedworms]

seasonal kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ2knpqVrJmaf6c

[@bmsmith5UB]

NWRedworms thanks!

[@aznguy11111]

or was it just that day ?

[@NWRedworms]

Lots goes onto the ground.

[@Michael-vo3tk]

do you have to do any special packing to make sure larvae arrive live?

[@NWRedworms]

I use plastic containers with air holes. the larvae are very durable.

[@gustavocalderon7459]

Did you thinkk, tthat I can produce I colony were I live . I live c3ntral coast to the Pacific Ocean

[@NWRedworms]

I can be done anywhere it just takes the right conditions.

[@aznguy11111]

so ur saying u get 3-4 pounds everyday?

[@BorealWormer]

Great video! Any plans for winterizing your bins?

[@ДаниярБайбатыров-э5к]

Welcome! 1 gram as larvae?

[@InsectDen]

do you feed them like the ordinary maggots species???

[@shammydammy2610]

No, these like vegetable waste.

[@Khoamikaze]

why do the larvae crawl out to those blue bins?

[@jacksonmaia5226]

Khoa Thai To explore the area.

[@samirfathy4837]

So you made these wooden boxes and they all come off in that bin?

[@NWRedworms]

I get a minimum of one lb per day max 7 lbs

[@deasunja1367]

NW REDWORMS, GREAT SET UP. THE MOST EFFECTIVE I'VE SEEN THUS FAR. FOR 20 LBS HARVEST A DAY WOULD YOU SUGGEST SEVERAL MORE BINS OF THE SIZE YOU USE ... OR LARGER BINS AND LESS OF THEM ? THANK YOU!

[@semi5alpha]

Those are massive ehe..

[@noctanol]

Damn you are lucky

[@babushall611]

Hi bro I also want to develop their colony can you suggest me I this..

[@ronlink7031]

Do you sell the larvae?

[@NWRedworms]

+Ron Link yes, nwredworms.sharepoint.com/Pages/Blacksoldierfly.aspx

[@HeavyDemir]

use Tare function, maybe :D

[@GPCTM]

3:17 Aleluia!

[@diegosebastianperez6867]

please describe the measurements in grams, kilograms, meters and in ℃. we have no idea about ounces and pounds, yards and feirenhiets. most in my country can't even spell them.

[@godcandoallthings691]

Can I use chicken manure to breed black soldier fly larvae?

[@NWRedworms]

Yes if you can stand the smell