🎉🙌🥳New paper out! funded by @fwf Interkingdom communication in mass-reared insects: A pathway to improved organic waste management
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2025.101427
@FliesFacility @fromwastetofeed @uniinnsbruck
#InsectFarming #CircularEconomy #Hermetiaillucens #waste #BlackSoldierFly
🎉🥳🤩 New paper out!! funded by @FWF_at
Larval density drives thermogenesis and affects #microbiota and substrate properties in #BlackSoldierFly trials
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112794
@fromwastetofeed
#HermetiaIllucens #Entomology #Microbiome #Biotechnology #CircularEconomy
Black Soldier Fly: The Harmless Soldier Fighting Mounds of Harmful Waste
#FAO #BioDAF #CoteDIvoire #BlackSoldierFly #Agriculture
#WasteManagement #Sustainability #Innovation #Food #CircularBioEconomy #HarmfulWaste
https://the-14.com/black-soldier-fly-the-harmless-soldier-fighting-mounds-of-harmful-waste/
👏🥳🎉🍾🥂2 GREAT achievements by Elisa Gemassmer: MSc defence AND start as PhD student @Mol_Ecol
@uniinnsbruck
Congrats to you, MSc Elisa, & thanks to examiners Barbara Tartarotti-Alfreider, Thomas Klammsteiner, and Birgit Sattler!
#blacksoldierfly #microbialdiversity
#womeninSTEM @fromwastetofeed
🎉 👏 🍾 MSc defence @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck by Linda Tekaat on maternal #oviposition instincts vs. developmental outcomes in the #BlackSoldierFly
Congrats to you, MSc Linda, & thanks to examiners @birgit_sattler and @julesibk
#womeninSTEM #CircularEconomy @fromwastetofeed
We welcome Elisa Gemassmer @Mol_Ecol @fromwastetofeed @uniinnsbruck!
She does her master thesis on the #BlackSoldierFly (oviposition attraction, microbial cultivation)
https://molecular-ecology.at/elisa-gemassmer
#InsectFarming #CircularEconomy #hermetiaillucens #WomenInSTEM
We welcome Linda Tekaat @Mol_Ecol @uniinnsbruck!
She does her master thesis on the #BlackSoldierFly (oviposition attraction, life-history traits, population genetics)
https://molecular-ecology.at/linda-tekaat/
#InsectFarming #CircularEconomy #hermetiaillucens
@fromwastetofeed
New paper out in @InsectsFoodFeed funded by @FWF_at!
#LifeHistory traits of #BlackSoldierFly reared on agro-industrial by-products subjected to three pre-treatments: a pilot-scale study
https://doi.org/10.3920/JIFF2022.0044
@fromwastetofeed #Hermetiaillucens #InsectFarming #CircularEconomy
RT from Seeed Studio (@seeedstudio)
Project #blacksoldierfly farming by Shaukatali Hussein, and Sahil Abdulalim on @Hacksterio used #SenseCAP k1100 creating #sustainable and accessible protein to complement animal feed. https://bit.ly/3s7ciKF
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/seeedstudio/status/1580108138161676288
It's good to get a picture of some #BlackSoldierFly that have made it to the adult stage and are making fertilized eggs!! Usually I only see them as #BSFL, white #maggots of various size and as black #larvae that I take from the compost bins and give to the chickens. It's like being God of Chickens and sending Mana down from heave, these bugs make the chicks so happy. #Abundance!!! I've been promising to take some maggots, and maybe chicks into class for direct hands-on experience...
Another form if insect agriculture for composting + chickens I'm looking into is #BlackSoldierFly, but I'm a bit put off by its seasonality. Basically, in Winter adults won't lay viable eggs, and larval activity slows down. I'm reading work that suggests you can mitigate this with commodity LED lighting to stimulate mating, so I may experiment if I have time to build the required tools/habitat.
#permaculture
