From Maggots to Millions: Biomimicking the Fly to Feed Humanity from its Waste in the 21st Century

‘QUIET PLEASE: Flies are breeding’… reads the sign displayed on the factory breeding room. A female black soldier fly (BSF) is laying around 1500 tiny white eggs onto an industrially designed grid. Over 21 days, one kilogram of her eggs will hatch into eight tonnes of larvae, which will initiate a n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Charlie Drew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dalhousie University Libraries 2019-10-01
Series:The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
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Online Access:https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/9379