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 ...

If you’re one of those people who composts everything you can think of because you want to build up your garden soil, you might – like me this summer – learn to love the maggots of black soldier flies ...

Fly poop may be the next generation of composting, according to the BBC. Black soldier fly larvae are able to digest four times their own body mass in organic matter every day. Some farms are ...

Kazakh entrepreneurs are utilizing black soldier fly farms to convert organic waste into valuable fertilizer, reducing landfill methane emissions. Community-led initiatives are promoting recycling and ...

While they might not win any beauty contests, the black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) are making a massive impact by turning food waste into a nutrient-rich biofertilizer known as frass. No, I'm not ...

New research demonstrates how using airflow can keep black soldier fly larvae, an important animal protein source, from overheating while feeding as a collective. Black soldier fly larvae devour food ...

Using hungry bugs to get rid of food waste that would otherwise end up in landfills is the winning project in the second annual UNLV President’s Innovation Challenge. Twenty teams entered the ...

Two members of the HLA Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab attended and presented research at the Black Soldier Fly Conference (BSF CON) September 8-10, 2025, in Cambridge, England. MS Student Celia ...