This London Farm Is Growing Millions of Soldier Fly Larvae for a Very Good Reason

[@rogerlockwood7815]

Brilliant! I just ordered 1,000 maggots off E-bay for my compost. We had them last year and the compost was magically turned into pure dirt. Our garden was unbelievable this year, and nothing added except the results of the composting.

[@tokirKhan24]

Are maggots harmful for human

[@Sev_Angel24]

@@tokirKhan24 nope, they're perfectly safe to eat

[@sedoniadragotta8323]

I use composting worms

[@albertbruhn931]

UPDATE? MAGGOTS GOOD OR NOT?

[@verairemonger1260]

Great.The trouble is, they want us all eating this shit, instead of the meat and dairy we now eat. They're crazy. Don't help them realise their aims.

[@GRASSYELLOW]

Nature itself purifies nature. It is our duty to find and maintain it. Congratulations on all the work.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? SAF SPF

[@raymondblood6322]

the king of Thailand taught this fifty yr ago its nothing new but it is the future for sure

[@danielgorzelniak3209]

Thailand has good natural climate for this. Try doing this outdoors in cold climate...

[@eug_metta]

I think the future is more likely to be cell-cultured meat and the use of bacteria to process the waste

[@5635.]

@@eug_metta hmmmm

[@INDIGE_STUDIO]

@@eug_metta lol you have lots to learn 😂

[@eitkoml]

This should be used for processing human sewage and animal manure.

[@Narekinoo]

Very interesting idea

[@test4O4]

yeah and then you can fry it and eat it whole

[@eitkoml]

@@test4O4 I'm not so sure about eating the things. I would gladly feed them to chickens, fish and pigs and then eat those.

[@xaviermahele03]

asdfghjkl it is a much more efficient in terms of biomass and energy conversion to just eat the insects

[@eitkoml]

@@xaviermahele03 I wouldn't want to eat anything that was fed animal manure and definitely wouldn't want to eat anything that was fed human waste.

[@billlee8881]

2:21 maggot bar

[@theshuman100]

Bill Clinton now thats what I call a protein bar

[@Дмитрий-п9ь7щ]

@@theshuman100 Snowpiercer?

[@theshuman100]

@@Дмитрий-п9ь7щ what

[@hebbu10]

Liceloaf

[@quocvietophu1627]

Finally some good fucking food

[@MyTing775]

Hi. Are superworms easier to farm. It seems bfl are very temperature reliant?

[@otobriseparadise871]

i do use de- watered pure poultry not fermented waste as substrate for my black soldier fly larvae to feed on and if i have to be honest with you guys, i have totally replaced soya bean with black soldier fly larvae in my fishery, piggery and poultry , i can now smile all the way.

[@SuperJC65]

I’m grinding my dried larvae up and snorting lines of the powder to get fucking high.

[@LairdWackyla]

anyway to buy some of their produce? I feel like consuming something that has only eaten coffee grinds it's whole life, might be exactly what I need to help wake up!

[@LatinaCreamQueen]

Plus, the protein boost at the beginning of the day is nice.

[@mvoakes8405]

can you give me a way to contact you? I want to start a (very) small BSF farm in Canada. I can't figure out how to find you on Mashables

[@alexcychung]

Same here, but in Taiwan

[@mariustsakem4235]

Same too but in Cameroon. Where can someone get the larvae eggs please?

[@montaserahmed585]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a36ZpmyQjZqYmac www.eawag.ch/en/department/sandec/projects/mswm/black-soldier-fly-biowaste-processing/

[@mariustsakem4235]

@@montaserahmed585 thanks very much for that link... i got a contact www.eawag.ch/en/department/sandec/projects/mswm/black-soldier-fly-biowaste-processing/

[@montaserahmed585]

@M voakes @Alex Chung

[@OlabodeAdebayo-nt9jx]

How can i acess those tools and do you offer training?

[@vysfarm5952]

Can u tell me what kind of food u feed larva?

[@heru-deshet359]

In the US soldier flies are used for fish food to increase seafood production. In the UK they use it on farms. That little bugger's going to get very valuable.

[@mrbrown6421]

Klaus Schwab. "..and you will eat Bugz..." 7.14.2022

[@pegler2008]

hi do you have a website or do you sell eggs and fly please

[@octaviosousa8818]

What kind of machine is that separates

[@artemalex1089]

wich lamp you use to light flies? what is the rose/violet light?

[@justintime970]

You didn't include the footage of YOU eating it....

[@krishankumar3895]

Never eat them , It's better for chicken and fish

[@waxwyrm]

If anyone's asking, look for reptile feeder websites to buy these.

[@cankaya8730]

Hi Sirs I would like to have education about BSF. Specially I loved your system.Would you please advice me that where and how I can get education about BSF. Sincerely yours Can Kaya

[@alextritten3378]

anyone knows what temperature and humidity the fly needs to lay eggs? My larvae only produced two or three flies and i don't think they laid eggs...

[@scrape2735]

This process has probably changed so much since 2017

[@RUserGroupKano]

Hi, Please I need the name of this farm? I'll like to talk to them if possible. thank you

[@akhmet274]

admire how people are smart

[@chuksbrian8675]

Please what is the name of that machine you used for separating the larvaes from their waste ???

[@roycropper420]

Did you find out what machine it was

[@tojal]

I find this very interesting and I can see it as a short-term solution to reduce the deforestation that happens to make room for soy which will later feed cows, for example. But, it is indeed like taking a painkiller for a broken leg - it takes away the pain but does not solve the issue. We need to focus on changing the way we eat so we don't need to find solutions to feed all these animals. I still applaud the effort as every move in the right direction is a good one!

[@meh23p]

If nothing else, insect meal can be used to feed fish which need even less feed than chickens do. Hopefully lab-grown and plant-based meat will dominate sooner than we think. Lab-grown fish seems to be further off, though.

[@BossOfAllTrades]

@@meh23p plant based meat isn't a better solution either, We have to learn how to provide for ourselves, instead of clearing out huge swafts of land for commercial revenue the commercial incentive of farming makes people take more than is needed and is unsustainable. I think we should be looking at ways to farm within our own backyard and find ways to use the action of insects on plant waste to turn unsuable celluose into a food source And I don't like the concept of lab grown meat because it brings in a load of problems as you have to add in already usuable proteins lets say from soy when you could have ate the soy yourself its a middle man for no reason. All you have to do is change the perception of foods to Americans aka eating insects, but also eating plants and eating fish but not wasting anything, and promote the concept that not everything is trash, it is wasteful to dump our food waste in landfills why not turn it into a protein source for you or your fish

[@wybuchowyukomendant]

@@BossOfAllTrades yeah, plant-based meat isn't a solution at all. If we all go vegetarian today we would have to deforest practically everything to make room for all the new farmlands, since our agriculture is an absolute garbo. But imagine if every big farm would start aquaponics, have their own maggot farm as a fish food source, some sort of renewable energy source for the heating and all the automation work, and deals with local shops and houses so they can collect their food waste. For a fraction of the price, fraction of water and hardly any energy at all we could be making more food than we can eat, basically without any wastes because it would go back into the system if unused. You could obviously scale it down to single households, but that's not possible in the big city and small apartment.

[@BossOfAllTrades]

@@wybuchowyukomendantThats a prefect example, and we have the same exact idea, But yea don't worry we will be the farmers of the future. I thought about it it makes sense to feed that food waste to grubs, instead of to cows and pigs, people love complaining about, We feed them to vermicuture and then to fish 🐟 Who doesn't love fish. This also gives them a natural and sustainable diet, many vegans warrant that it is sustainability as the problem so I always ask the question " if I grew you a 100% sustainabile fish would you eat it".

[@BossOfAllTrades]

@@wybuchowyukomendant The automation part is amazing, If used in the right way we could grow all the oysters, shrimp and seafood the world ever wanted, as the USA lacks in this department. But companies could use that to create monopolies, and we would get back to the current unsustainability, we have today, we have to put the hands of food production into local communities and towns and not monopolies. Think about it automation sorting garbage, repromoting the recycling industry, bottles made from algae, this could spur on a new age for America. We would be exporting a whole lot and boost The economy through the roof, if the right programs and regulations were in place, Imagine if you past a limit of food supply and you would have to sell some off to prevent overproduction or you overproduce on purpose because your close to local drones, that deliver food to cities and you make bank. Future cities might need to be revamped to cause as it stands its really just office buildings, and penthouses not a good use for 100 ft skyscrapers...

[@jochenlee-wo1135]

Will it be possible for an apprenticeship on this farm.

[@jamestunnicliffe8535]

Reminds me of the grub farmer in Blade Runner 2049.

[@mosesg9998]

What is the machine called that sifts out the Frass? Very cool

[@Lukail90]

"You vil eat ze bugz" - Klaus Schwab

[@stream2watch]

HPS lights or LED lights in that breeding room? I see those SAFEDGE boxes that look like HPS ballasts, but I can't be sure.

[@roycropper420]

Anymore info on these guys please

[@muqeetmustafa3289]

Hi. What is the mesh size used to separate the bsf?

[@variousbangladesh6279]

location in london?

[@irfanjava]

can you explain what colour LED for BSF fly?

[@arshadsheikh5628]

That was a great video. Full of knowledge.

[@jabbersink6218]

I just got a job for soldier fly farm attendant, im so psyched. Helping save the environment, heck yeah

[@verairemonger1260]

You're crazy.

[@bcustoaniki89]

Where can I get my self these black soldier flies? I live in Malta

[@soronos8586]

They could definitely scale it 666 times

[@amungwatdaniel9978]

it amazing, but I will like to work with you If I happen to be in UK. can I have your full address?

[@p19666666]

How much it cost for this set up

[@Greyr4X]

luv it, I just hope it doesn't have side-effects eating those

[@bruderambrosius745]

Dimana bisa dapat bibitnya dan bahan untuk mulai.

[@harrybellingham98]

bet they start feeding this to people one day

[@nicolasvanlangendonck9179]

Since it is a compost, do it warm up like a normal compost? If yes, does it affect the larvae? Thank you

[@heidik.9005]

Nicolas Vanlangendonck i wouldn't think so. Basically the temperature in a normal compost pile increases because of the decaying process. In this setup there is no decaying process as the larvae are eating everything and you are left with their waste. If you were to throw the larvae into a normal composting bin the heat may be an issue eventually, but if you aren't severely overfeeding them it should not be a problem here.

[@Largexxl-zn4lx]

Yes it does warm up and will be a problem without ventilation.

[@rversocal8889]

Somehow I don’t see these making it into my local sushi restaurant directly

[@has489]

The salmon is already eating it

[@zuutlmna]

This is brilliant! But I think China may be ahead of the game on this... Nevertheless, scaled up to large industrial size operation, the larval container atmospheres can be captured, scrubbed/refined etc. for use of those gases.

[@FORTMOUD]

Better be carefully with China products because they grow cheap as can be seen with their products getting people sick .They grow with animal manure which is very toxic for any consumption.

[@estebancorral5151]

London sewage once having removed the bio-methane still has tons of sludge leftover. The next logical step is to feed that to black soldier flies.

[@kelvinmunene3759]

Hi, how do you separate the larvae from the residue

[@labella9291]

He uses a sifter, but the great thing about BSFL is when they are ready to pupate, the large ones (black in color) will by their own nature crawl away from the compost or food source or whatever. Most people provide them with a ramp, they crawl up the ramp, and then fall down into a holding container of some kind. And then they are collected.

[@kelvinmunene3759]

I was particularly interested in the wet larvae before they start turning to pupae. I am processing these for my chicken feed

[@rodrigo25912]

Qual a temperatura ideal para mosca e para larva?

[@josepmedina536]

Para la Mosca 27 grados C y para la larva max 35. La mosca puede vivir hasta los 5 grados pero sin actividad reproductiva.

[@awiskhorni8126]

Whats is the machine that u use for filtering that bsf larva?

[@TheMinimumPC]

Just a vibrating mesh, probably made it themselves

[@JayB-ju9vc]

where do you get the flys from ?

[@sheraklassen4163]

A lot of compost heaps already have them.

[@galangsatria2196]

i want to ask is coffee waste do u use from company or from cafetaria around the street? is the larvae can eat coffee waste from our coffee drink? because there is alot of cafetaria in my place Thank You

[@nikolavucetic7692]

Mealworms larva eat both fresh coffee and waste coffee so i suppose that bsf larva can eat it too.

[@ronaldherman9018]

Can broiler chickens eat BSF larvae?

[@CampingforCool41]

It’s gonna take a lot to get people to eat maggots (even if they are just ground up), I myself find it disgusting. But I still think it’s a brilliant idea to use these for aquaculture and other animal feed

[@chonaloupomicpic908]

Thank you hope I could contact you for more info how to breed, ang how to build those machine saw in the video. Iam in the phils. I want to teach and tell them the natural way feeding our fish. And other

[@josinconwosu1832]

Very good of protien, can i get the address of your production for more study on BSF

[@MainaKiritu]

Awesome job there. Would it be possible to guide me on how to start small? I would love to start from garage of 15" by 9".

[@RahulSharma-pt6up]

But how you guys extracting the dry compost as larvae needs wet waste to eat...

[@revimfadli4666]

Give to the larvae wet, and only dry it after harvesting?

[@prabakarsrm5749]

Wat food can give give to housefly breeding method pl tell how to breed maggot want to give my chicken iam in India tamilnadu thank u

[@mysticalblossom9403]

I have a weird idea what would happen if you left them in a waste land?

[@massimotristano4277]

I tried fried caterpillars in Thailand, and I am addicted to them. They taste like french fries, only 10 times better, and probably much healthier than potatoes.

[@chanduyadav1686]

sir it is good and how can I firming these

[@stardoll346]

This is the future.

[@benjamin13212]

So many people are against eating fly larvae today. I don't there will be as much resistance when there are packaged fly larvae burgers, chicken nuggets and whatever else offered at a fraction of the price of traditional animal protein.

[@timwiebe8216]

Very cool , please share information on the automatic feeding system.

[@meetultrivedi9418]

yep,they give birth to surplus worn one cup could generate same amount of flies and other bucket full is for nature,similar to Indonesian worm farm...but UK facility is lit....hence I liked this video....faculty +personnel are great...

[@piec6062]

Man....I wish I can invist into something like this! What a gold mine!

[@davemwangi05]

let's invist in these worms. Man.

[@muckypup595]

Do it! You will need a location that has surplus waste for free and expect to pay for it in the future as competition increases.

[@VillageTV]

INTERESTING VIDEO!

[@jaydon1232]

Is the food source clean? Isn’t it supposed to go off by the time the larvae about to eat it? That means the larvae is surrounded by off food. How can u clean the larvae ?

[@adamkowalfik4283]

Symbiotic microorganisms do this, also maggot "skin" is hydrophobic.

[@jaydon1232]

Adam Kowalfik can you explain a bit more ?

[@adamkowalfik4283]

Jaydon Nguyen actually it is not true;D Their skin is not really hydrophobic but when they out of feeding pulp they dry quite fast and they clean so You dont need to wash them. Also symbiothic bacteria cares for absent of pathogens. For more info just type "symbiothic bacteria hermetia illucens" in google there is some articela about it.

[@shammydammy2610]

Where do you think human feces go, Frog? It doesn't magically disappear.

[@shammydammy2610]

If that's all you think happens to it, it probably helps you sleep better. Although it's not legally done in the US anymore, it used to be fairly common to feed human feces to pigs.

[@jefkoele-wijn8872]

I like it, this is very interesting

[@chinimon8259]

We hated flies for so many years...now were embracing lol

[@brianandlynphilippines]

you are thinking about shit flies, which are disease vectors. I wouldn't eat the BSF, but I do pity your ignorance.

[@muckypup595]

We were annoyed by flies, however they have been used a long time to feed fish until Western government outlawed it and are now pretending to be your savior and legalizing it again.

[@digger3594]

1 tonne of protein a day in 4 square meters,I highly doubt that

[@harrietlyall1991]

Yay! Fantastic initiative! More power to you! I want some of that frass stuff for my vegetable plot 🐛✊🏼🐛✊🏼🐛✊🏼🦟✊🏼🦟✊🏼🦟

[@saivamsi983]

Any waste can we use

[@disappointment00000]

The UK need such technology as food for animal and chicken

[@greencity-sirfsach561]

Sir after feeding manggots , then any other wise feed suppliment required or not please reply

[@Bortham7]

He said something very important "the engineers of today are the farmers of tomorrow".

[@Zeldkamp]

Wow what amazing stuff!! Do you have a video of your vibrating sifter?

[@kelvinmunene3759]

Have you worked on separating larvae before ?

[@willm5814]

No question this is part of the solution!

[@ChillFrost]

🤣 they look funny at the shaking seive

[@noblelies]

"Solider Fly Larvae" sounds so much ritzier than "food waste maggots".

[@cedriceveleigh]

How are the larvae killed? Is it ethical? I'm genuinely curious.

[@LilPlaya3200]

I imagine frozen

[@davemwangi05]

@@LilPlaya3200 No, they're killed by strangling

[@watchanime331]

Divad Ignawm this comment made me LOL

[@brianandlynphilippines]

Notify Scotland Yard, there has been a murder! We'll get to the bottom of this for you Cedric, and whoever killed the maggot, will pay!

[@bobmonk388]

Sorry but you are not getting the west eating those even in powder form but to feed livestock they will be perfect as long as their food source is kept to a decent quality .

[@優さん-n7m]

I guess only pornstars that already love doing ass to mouth will love this as food

[@brianandlynphilippines]

That is not true. There are those who think like you, but then there is the other 50% who vote Democrat. The Leftist and Democrats have or will embrace. Just like LGBTQYZ parades, they will gorge on maggots in public, just to put themselves on display.

[@bingbangbongmukbang3015]

I bet that takes a lot of money to start and run this production. This should be natural and the cost should be minimal.

[@stardoll346]

Please can visit your facility

[@paragboramanikar2819]

I want to start a (very) small BSF farm in india .You can send me information about system .& any contract farming company

[@dickhead8775]

Food shortages will be solved in the way they always are - the powerful countries will take from the weak. Black soldier fly larvae are a good way to convert waste to livestock food, though.

[@akinnon2000]

I want to see that combioned to aquapony...

[@Bodragon]

(0:06) - "...so we take the eggs and we convert them back into adults flies..." *_WTF_* Why not snap them up while they are already at the adult stage rather than going through the cycle of: "convert[ing] them back into adults flies...?" Surely *_that_* takes up more energy ? Seems you're missing a trick here. >

[@Epicdps]

Are you high?

[@Bodragon]

@@Epicdps I am merely criticizing his very poor manner of explaining his processes. My sarcasm is deliberate. >

[@agent9809]

Many domestic farm animals eat Insects , Fish eat insects also It is very normal and healthy too

[@seangifucan7009]

Why I am watching this? It's1:30 am, why????

[@wybuchowyukomendant]

2:30 even if we won't start a revolution, it will start itself soon enough. We are growing at 85 millions people a year. 85 000 000 new mouths to feed yearly, that's quite a lot, and without agricultural revolution those mouths are gonna be really hungry and mad. Add climate fluctuations, some environments getting too hot to live, some going underwater...

[@takwawannassi2649]

i am so interested by this domaine

[@fawzimomo2749]

Can you Sand a sampel of what you got to Algérie thanks

[@NeurodivergentSuperiority]

We won't eat the bugs Klaus, we'll employ the bugs!

[@supahfly_uk]

i saw a video in 2015 of Chinese people doing this nothing new.

[@heshamtoson5007]

Numbers mentioned unrealistic

[@heshamtoson5007]

In order to get 1 ton of larvae you need to process 5 ton of waste (food) how it's done in 8 cubic meter Mr full automated????

[@aquabor3601]

Valoya B100 AP673 LED Grow Bar- 120cm

[@aquabor3601]

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[@ecofuturista9065]

People are up in arms about deforestation in the Amazon - signing petitions, protesting in the streets, posting on FB+IG, etc. To really make a difference though, we need to adopt lower-resource-footprint protein, on a major scale. Beef and pork are the prime reasons South American forests are suffering from chainsaws and arson - whether for grazing, or for soy (that's either fed to the animals in South America, or exported to China, Europe, etc to feed livestock there.) While we're at it, we need to reconsider our notions of the term "disgusting." I wouldn't want to eat raw larvae, just as I wouldn't want to bite into a raw cow. It's called cooking/ preparation. Best of luck Entocycle.👊

[@roadrunnerchris2845]

Permaculture projects on a local community scale is the answer, not adding more problems to the existing problem. Yes we're overpopulated, but we're also lazy and depend on junk food as a convenient food source.