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    Anyone using black soldier flies?

    Quote: They are already here in southwest Florida. Once your daily highs top 80F, they'll start showing up. You should start seeing them mid to late april in central alabama.
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    Anyone using black soldier flies?

    Quote: Tom, if you're wanting to use the larvae as suppliment feed for your chickens, here's an idea: Come springtime, set up a bin similar to the double ended one in my blog (it's scalable in case you don't want one quite so large) with one of the collection tubes feeding directly into your...
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    Anyone using black soldier flies?

    Tarvus, where do you live? You aren't having any difficulty in winter it sounds like? How's your production currently? Tom, I'm in southwest Florida - Cape Coral - near Fort Myers. Production was great until early December when egglaying seemed to stop altogether. The cold weather we are...
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    Anyone using black soldier flies?

    Quote: That is a cool idea! I raise Black Soldier Flies and am planning on experimenting with feeding duckweed out of our canal to the grubs when our summertime duckweed bloom arrives this coming year. I hadn't thought about using the grubs to fertilize the duckweed! That would be kind of a...
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