PROXIMATE AND FATTY ACID PROFILE COMPARISON OF BLACK SOLDIER FLY LARVAE REARED ON PALM KERNEL MEAL AND COW MANURE

Black soldier fly (BSF) is becoming popular in the last few years. Several types of organic substrate have been tested as for BSF larvae (BSFL) and resulted valuable nutritional content BSFL. The purpose this study was to compare content, fatty acid profile, growth profile BSFL grown between fermented Palm Kernel Meal (PKM) cow manure (CM). In total 3000 g 7-day old larva (initial weight 0.044 g; length 12.44 mm) randomly divided into two groups triplicates. First group fed PKM second CM. After 15 days, harvested, cleaned, dried, separated meal oil. analyzed proximate (Moisture, ash, crude protein, lipid, carbohydrate), while oil lipid profile. from determined by measuring 20 samples per replication. Present revealed that reared at had significantly higher protein (47.34%), ash (13.18%), lauric acid, heptadecanoic unsaturated than CM, but lower moisture (1.83%), (4.31%), carbohydrate (33.34%), palmitoleic myristoleic linolenic arachidic acid. Linolelaidic either palm kernel or no difference. suggested both CM can be used substrates growing convert useful value.