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Insect-based Processing of Biodegradable Waste
Welcome to DipTerra! We've designed our website to provide support in using Black Soldier fly (BSF) larvae in getting you up and running in processing food scrap, vegetal and other organic wastes.  Using BSF to process food scrap and vegetable matter destined for the compost pile is an eco-friendly, low energy and low cost alternative method of recycling organic wastes.

Check off the garbage pick-up grid by paying yourself with savings realized by eliminating garbage pick-up fees (see Recycle Food Scrap at Home & Save Big)! Explore how to enhance and improve the quality of your garden and nourish your plants and soil by making the best use of Nature's unique recyclers, BSF (see Soldier Fly Food Scrap Leachate | A Treasure Trove Amended in Soil).

These harmless, non-pest insects, which as adults resemble and are often mistaken by the casual observer as wasps, have no stinger, do not spread diseases, and prefer to live and thrive outdoors. They have been silently recycling organic wastes outdoors for thousands of years - true experts in the art of recycling! 

In addition to processing food scrap and compostable vegetal matter, BSF, in assimilating nutrients present in waste into insect biomass, provide an excellent source of high quality protein feedstock devoured by many birds (including domesticated chickens), amphibians and reptiles, and can also be fed to farmed fish such as tilapia, trout and catfish.

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Black Soldier Fly Applications in Recycling Organic Waste

Image of mating Black Soldier Flies.
Adult BSF laying eggs in insect nursery.​
Newly hatched adult Black Soldier flies emerging from their pupae shells. The shells left behind as the adults take flight in seeking a mate are rich in chitin (from which chitosan can be derived), and calcium carbonate, and accordingly have significant potential economic value.
Image of Black Soldier fly larvae recycling decaying food scrap waste into insect biomass which can be harvested and used as poultry feedstock and as a high quality protein supplement in fish meal formulations.
Chickens enjoying a healthy meal of Black Soldier fly prepupae (rich in high quality protein, lipids, calcium and chitin) harvested from food scrap waste.
Growth of winter wheat. (Left) Untreated soil. (Right) Soil treated with leachate recovered from food scrap processed by Black Soldier fly larvae.