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 ...

BHARDEV, Nepal (Reuters) - In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently squeezing the ...

A Buffalo startup is commercializing a biotechnology that leverages the life cycle of the common black soldier fly to create a protein-rich, sustainable feedstock for fish- and animal-rearing. The New ...

Biotechnologists from MIPT have developed a method for extracting the active constituents from the fat of black soldier fly larvae. These compounds possess unique antimicrobial properties and can ...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A bin full of black soldier fly larvae are eating away at food waste inside the Full Circle Bioconversion barn in Old Lycoming Township. For owner Aubrey Fornwalt, getting into ...

Michigan is home to countless species of fish flies, also known as mayflies, and many are expected to swarm lakeside communities near Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River in the days to ...

The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) isn’t particularly glamorous, sometimes described as wasp-like without the sting. But whole factories are being built around the insect to produce a ...

A worker collects black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae at the production plant in Guapiles, Costa Rica - Copyright AFP Ezequiel BECERRA A worker collects ...