Baia Food, which is developing exotic enriched foods including a fruit from Africa with no record ... It uses black soldier fly larvae, which are raised on a diet of pre-consumed food waste.

Utilisation of BSF larvae could help to stem the expansion of damaging palm ... each palm was estimated to yield 12.5 palm fruit bunches per year. The weight of each palm was estimated at 25kg, with ...

Jorge Alemán Braulio Bonilla and Gilberto Bolaños in the laboratory where they keep the Black Soldier Fly larvae eating food scraps, inside the green boxes. Jorge Alemán The females lay from ...

In this series, we explore cool new jobs in the innovation economy. If history has taught us anything it’s this: When you spot a lone fruit fly in your kitchen’s air space, you are ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and ...

which hatch into larvae. In Ardmona, near Shepparton, fifth-generation fruit grower Mitch McNab said the area-wide management plan had helped reduce fruit fly numbers in urban areas, which ...

BSF larvae can consume any organic waste, including fruits, vegetables and expired foods. “What’s interesting about BSF is not its life cycle as a fly but its larval phase: it is very hungry ...

What can the common fruit fly teach us about autism? That's a question Sacramento State Biology Professor Kim Mulligan and her students are working to answer. Mulligan's research centers on the ...

In her spare time, she's in her kitchen, trying a new baking recipe. Fruit flies are the bane of every kitchen, especially during warmer months starting in March and again in the fall. Tackling ...