How to Start a Black Soldier Fly Larvae Colony
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ธ.ค. 2022
- In this video I will go over how to start your very own black soldier larvae colony! Whether you are starting a colony to feed an animal or are just interested in composting, this video will describe in detail how to maximize your black soldier larvae potential!
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I subscribed b/c you won my admiration by being 1. Frugle, 2. Chaotic, and 3. Adventurous with the element of danger...
“I enjoy the chaotic element of possibility cutting my hand open” 😂 Me too! Hahahah 🎉That is one happy bearded dragon!!!
That was the best part! 😂
Awesome video! So cool to see how people make different set ups. Keep up the great work and have a wonderful day
Thank you!! 😄 You as well!
@@valtariiHalo beautiful
I'm from Pakistan I want to start BSF farming in pakistan...I want them for farming please send it to me its a request
YOU MAKE ME PROUD WATCHING THIS VIDEO
your instructions were clear enough that I believe I can follow and do the same 🎉
She's so dang funny! Love her style of recklessness, as I can connect with that. Super job! You go girl!
You are great 😃 I love how you gat around every problem.
Gritting from Peten Guatemala
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
It's always great to see a new take on a BSF bin ... Just PLEASE everyone try to understand just how easy these amazing insects are to raise.. You don't need mosquito netting, wood that will rot in the elements, fancy swinging latches, etc ... As an extreme example, there is a 'biopod' (i.e. plastic container with an incline) that sells for over $200 dollars... That is pretty crazy when you look at how many quality HDPE plastic containers there are everywhere as on a bike ride, I found a 35 lb kitty litter container that someone tossed out.. It works great with a few small holes drilled in the sides below the rim and also the bottom, with a bungie cord to keep the racoons out... The main point is, take advantage of the unbelievable hardiness of these creatures and know you can build a great fixture for them with very minimal materials...
Also: if your colony conditions has sludge in it (like at the 6 min mark in this video); you need more drainage/ more aeration... I'm not trying to be critical, but that amount of sludge is a little gross and might prevent newcomers from starting up their own setup.. Drainage and Aeration are really the only two things to think about, and they go hand in hand... (The fact that the BSF can survive in those conditions is a testiment to just how hardy they are)
Correct. BSF larvae will flee from muddy food.
I suggest adding hardwood sawdust (from grill pellets) and some lump hardwood charcoal (broken into stone sized pieces) to help absorb liquids and odors.
I also personally add some calcium carbonate powder, since i have an excessive amount to use.
@@FusionDeveloper Awesome man.. yeah I saw you post a question about artficial lighting, where she uses 120 watt daylight floodlights.. If a regular plain jane led bulb like hers works, which I believe it does, then I have no clue why all the 'bsf lights' that are sold online for 180+ dollars claim you need uva and possibly a little uvb.. With it being October near saint louis here, it's getting kind of late to start any experiment but anyways yeah when I took the flies from the shade to the sunlight today (I have them in a small tent), they went from statues to active fliers, moving everywhere.. Kind of strange how most of their life they do everything to avoid light, but then when they become flies, light instantly activates them.. Have you had any success finding an led? I looked into a 26 watt one from lucky herp brand, which comes in 5.0, 10.0, or 15.0% uvb in addition to uva depending on the model you want, though now that the one video of the lady in the green as well as the guy from nigeria are simoly using straight up, ordinary flood lights, I don't know if leds with uva or uvb, or any combination of the two is really necessary. As an aside, of the 3% of uv sunlight that gets through the ozone, 95% is uva and only 5% is uvb... Anyways, I might hang a light inside of a trash can with a cracked lid, maybe add a wet towel at the bottom for some humidity (not that it's dry in october) and a small container at the bottom with an apple and a little cardboard.. I'll send you some links of the stuff I'm referencing tomorrow if you haven't already found what I'm talking about.. Yeah, all in all the lighting seems to be the most finicky or what not, though I haven't tried yet, just relying on the babies I find in the food scraps outdoors..
This is an excellent video. Awesome!
I love the “use what you have” element to this tutorial!
amazing work!! super impressed!
Way to go! Excellent job!
Great and simple will definitely try this model.thanks 🎉🎉🎉
i was laughing how haphazard your product is😂 but no one will laugh after watch your product working really well. great vid!
Great job and love the creative effort that went into your setup! Question... did you order mature black soldier flies to get the colony started or did you allow some of the larva to hatch? I have larva growing and have been taking some out and putting them into a bucket with dirt hoping they'll hatch & start reproducing.
Awesome home project tutorial! Also it's fresh out on the youtube
In here we separate reproduction and production, we have a few 7x7feet mosquito netting, it needs about a pound of pre pupae each a day to keep it at maximum egg production, the eggs are collected and grown into larvae in a different place. When I started I did a very similar thing to what you have done but I believe separating the 2 stages isn't necessary but it dramatically increases production, I would have problems where small insects and other animals would tear at the mosquito netting to get to the food, a few flies would escape as a result, you may find that the flies lay eggs in between the mosquito netting because of the smell of the subtrate, those eggs are almost always lost, the smell needs to be concentrated at a single area where the flies will lay the eggs, it is what they call the attractant. Anyway very good video and I hope to see more, cheers!
do you use anything for your attractant? Ideally something that isn't rotting as a normal compost would have?
I started breeding the black soldier fly and I have little information, can you help me?
@@mrniusi11 Unfortunately the fouler the smell the better. But to a degree anything that is rotting will attract the flies, things that have a worse smell will grab more of the attention of the flies, your compost is probably enough, but it wouldn't be if you lived close to a fishery for example. Do you add manure to your compost? The larva are more than happy to eat that, but they are not good at processing cellulose.
@@user-tx5vs9ks7c Sure, what question do you have?
Your inginuity is impressive. Great job.
Great video.
You are amazing..a beautiful idea
Awesome work. thank you for sharing. You were very determined to do this. Wish I could help you with tools.
Great video 👍
Very good video ❤❤❤❤
Bery nice,thanks!!
Looks good. I started a giant bin for red worms for castings and breeding plus meal worms for frass. I’ll starting a BSF bin here soon for chicken feed. I’ll be using your example
The insect waste and leftovers is good food for your worms. Just try to keep your BSF out of your worm bins.
That is the most jerry rigged thing ive ever seen in my life, i love it.
The BEST video that I’ve found that literally walks you through step by step. Thank you!!
Great job! I know your bearded dragon will love you for that. 😃
Awesome cinematography and information! I have been thinking for a long time of making a system which is effectively identical to what you've constructed here. I would be interested in a future video of yours to see how your system is holding up and see it in action some more, a bit of a retrospective, ie do you think this is the best design for small-scale non-commercial applications, or what would you change if you were to remake it? Much thanks!
good job.
I loved it. Mine would be so similar, I would say I have a (insert proper tool here), but it is buried in the shed, and yeah, I'm just gonna melt that with my soldering iron; with a little "Too lazy to worry about measuring for accuracy on my maggot bucket, lol." I wonder if I should start taping some of the bizarrety of me?
you are amazing
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6:03 ok I see a potato but what is that tar looking liquid down there ? I know it’s supposed to provide them with sustenance but what is it made of ? It looks nasty.
It is what is leftover from previous food placed into the bin, though from what other comments are saying, that much moisture is not good and dryer material should be added to balance it out
Nice work on this video. A lot of effort setting the camera up, narrating and editing. Also great that it's concise. 10/10
What about old flies? How do you clean them up with such super compact structure?
Very good job. I really liked it. It should give you endless food for your lizard pet. I learned about BSFL culture today in Turkey and thinking to learn more about it because chicken feed is very expensive in Turkey and maybe it might help some poor farmers to get their own protein rich feed for much cheaper. Also we could use this method to help poor refugees and poor people around the world to become self sustainable with their food.
Chicken in Turkey. Hmmmm. New recipe?
I love her.
Really well done😊
Will this work in the uk ?
She enjoys the chaotic element of the possibility of cutting her hand open???!!!🙄😳🤣🙄
How could i order for BSF PUPA?
So I'm doing one outside. I spent $8 to buy small BSFL to get it started, but supposedly if I just waited 2-3 weeks, I would have attracted them naturally. What's my point? If you're doing this outside, you shouldn't need netting to capture them so they don't fly away and you should be able to attract them naturally. HOWEVER, in the winter time, I LOVE the idea of still being able to do this, by capturing them in the netting. Awesome idea. Now, how to do so and not freak the rest of the family out! hahahahahahahaha
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6:03 that is waaaaaaay too wet for the larvae.
It's better for the bedding/substrate of BSF larvae to be a little too dry, than to be too wet.
Other fly species don't mind or prefer or even require sopping wet substrate, but not Black Soldier Flies.
I suggest mixing in Saw Dust (rehydrated pellets used for (food) grill smokers) to help absorb excess water/waste.
I personally love adding in some lump hardwood charcoal broken up into smaller pieces.
Activated Carbon would be better and less work, but it costs a huge amount more money and probably isn't much different for this purpose.
A huge back of lump hardwood charcoal is $12-$30 (usually around $16-$18) for 8 to 20 lbs and would leave you with plenty to spare.
While Activated Carbon for a 9oz container is around $8, which is less than 1 lb.
Since we aren't trying to purify water with it, any absorbing done by regular lump hardwood charcoal will be beneficial enough, just don't pulverize it into dust, make the pieces around the size of a golf ball or as small as 1/4 that, of course any size is better than nothing if you just want to toss in whatever pieces you want.
Where did you order you “black fly larvae “?
Ikr
I added a link to my description with the larvae I purchased. It's a pretty good price for the amount of larvae you get. I've ordered from them at least 3 times and I've always been pleased with the quality of the larvae.
@@valtarii thank you very much…
Good morning from Nimol, Cambodia. I am interested in your program
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What do the flies eat?
Literally anything. Any kind of Kitchen scraps probably work best. Even meat and dairy. Paper, cardboard, and garden scraps also work. I had one in college that started on it own . I just used a peice of wood as a way for the flies to get out and it worked very well. I also had quails so I just fed them the fly larvae and it worked very well. I miss that bin
Yummy!
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Where exactly do the flys lay their eggs? Great video!
In the cutted boxes she hanged
@@lix768 then why the net further up? I am confused. Not knocking her system
Her setup is 2 compartments
The upper is for the fly
They come up after hatching out
The lower is for the larvae and compost
When the fly is ready to lay, they'll go to the down compartment were the boxes are and lay.
She didn't bring the boxes to the upper part so that when they hatch they fall onto the compost
they lay the eggs in whatever compost you are using old food etc.....
@@Chronic_Pothead thx
Interested how cani contact u
Never mind the setting up of the apparatus. I need to know how do i catch a fly or get eggs or lavae. Not one video tells you those points. I am in Africa. All videos are shown in america or other countries.
There is a problem with not getting married because of the sun. Is there an alternative solution for closed places?
Loosing a eye excites you come on good video though wear safety equipment always.
Halo dear
I want to start farming of bsf in pakistan i want to buy them for farming in pakistan
Please reply 😢
I am from Egypt and have a small farm It is a desert land that has been reclaimed I would like to communicate with you directly to exchange information regarding this fly and vermicompost worm
I love dragons but if that is a loose staple on the ground in its cage and not completely down it most likely will invest it and die.
Where are you seeing a loose staple?
@@valtarii in its cage during feeding I use data saver to view so it may not have been what I thought if is has come out my dragons try eat strings off drugs in cages from shredding it and that get wrapped around organs to I love dragons URS looks like a big male.
@@MR-puffnstuff Yes indeed, he’s a male and he’ll be 8 this year! I’ve watched it back and I see no staple… maybe a piece of a plant or a cricket leg? Staples have never been used in or around the tank so I’m guessing it was just something staple shaped? But I appreciate those looking out for the dragons
Why would you want to do this?
for fun
Black soldier fly larvae are one of the best feeders for reptiles as well. It can get expensive if you have multiple reptiles and continue to order these over and over again. Having your own breeding grounds really makes it better for you and a much better outlook for your reptiles!
Why ?
Who puts a cat on a leash?
Someone who wants to keep the cat close if there are hawks in the area!
Who lets their cat get that fat?
Too complicated damnit
Invest 20$ and please buy some gloves and wear them when sawing
Acting like you finna cut a finger off with a hand saw 💀
Free chicken feed.
Hi great job am black soldier farmer can i have your whatsup . thank you
working way too hard for this
Damn,cat woman,if you gonna do a video, get you some tools !😂
thank god she didn't melt the PVC cuz god damn