Metabolic performance of black soldier fly larvae during entomoremediation of brewery waste

This study aims to evaluate the metabolic performance, in terms of specific rates growth and feed assimilation, as well cost maintenance black soldier fly larvae, BSF, Hermetia illucens on brewery waste, a potential worldwide available resource for industrial scale insect production. Brewery waste lacks starch thus has nutritional profile substantially different from chicken feed, which is well-established excellent starchy food source BSF larvae. It therefore interesting gain insight into how larvae perform waste. Larvae were reared mixtures two. Measurements weight their respiratory CO2 production used estimate performance daily basis. The grew all substrates. They reached highest but assimilation mixed substrates, also maximal shortest time. Substrate-dependent costs not observed while tended be only slightly lower Overall, converted low-starch larval biomass about equally efficiently, although led smaller mixing two substrates enhanced growth. seems suitable comparable with respect performance.