adults dont feed just mate and lay eggs over food when the eggs hatch and find food they are white.then they feed and secrete a pheromone that attreact more moms to the food supply where they lay more eggs .. and they gorge themselvs . when they are mature and they seem to think its time to pupate they metmorphate their mouth change, they secrete a antibiotic of sorts and they turn black and try to get away from the food to find a place to pupate ie self harvest if you use a pio-pod or include a ramp on your colony. i was thinking that the self harvest pipe could leed to the chicken run maybe a pretty flat ramp so some escape. or collect and freeze some
5-8 day as a adult and minimum of 2 weeks to several months as white larvea
