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I actually wrote an article on those. I need to revisit the project this summer. BSF aren't native to my are since it gets too cold for them, but if I can get a colony going in the greenhouse, they may survive since I moved my compost in there to generate some heat during the winter.Try making a bsfl bucket!
Black. Soldier. Fly. Larvae. Bucket. It attracts the flies they lay eggs, the eggs hatch into larvae and then you feed it to your birds and all the flies are contained. Look it up on youtube!
Oh cool!I actually wrote an article on those. I need to revisit the project this summer. BSF aren't native to my are since it gets too cold for them, but if I can get a colony going in the greenhouse, they may survive since I moved my compost in there to generate some heat during the winter.
If you're asking about the black soldier fly, quail will eat the larvae (even freeze dried) with much pleasure. I haven't built a BSFL colony, yet, but plan to do so when I move from the burbs to the country later this year.Will quail eat the flies or larvae? Or is that more for chickens?
They do in my coop! I use droppings boards, which I scrape off and put in the larva pit. They eat in, and in doing so, they remove the other flys' habitat!Do the Black Soldier Fly population reduce the other types of fly populations ?
It's that awful smell that attracts the flies, though.I have also used similar traps to those shown in the link above and they work really well. Just an FYI, make sure they are down wind of anyplace you spend time outside, or change them out often. As they fill with dead flies they can stink to high heaven. Any of them you add water to will do that.