Black Soldier Flies to the rescue

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A handful of dried black soldier fly larvae (BSFL), which can be ground into meal and pressed into pellets for feeding chickens or fish.
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Equatorial Feeds founder Bill Mebane enters the fly “nursery.” With no digestive system, adult black soldier flies only have a week to mate and lay eggs before dying. The company is ramping up egg production in order to meet its goal of producing 10 kg of larvae a week by January.
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Li Ling Hamady, Rhys Probyn and Bill Mebane plunge into a tub of feasting black soldier fly larvae.
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Equatorial Feeds business manager Rhys Probyn emerges from his office, which is adorned by a sculpture of a black soldier fly. The start-up company rents an office and greenhouse space from Miskovsky Landscaping in East Falmouth
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fish racks and breakfast remnants collected by Equatorial Feeds employee Corrine Barkus from her other job at a hotel, are quickly consumed by the larvae, which can put away four times their body weight in a day.