BSF EGG PRODUCTION SUCCESS (RAHIMA)

 

Ideally, BSF eggs should be harvested (replace the cardboard) every day or every two days to make the empty flute space available for the oviposition. The eggs can be directly introduced to the already set up compost for hatching. The black soldier fly larvae will not consume your eggs unless the eggs are already dead and rotting. This is a good thing because when the larvae consume those rotting eggs, other eggs that haven't been infected will be fine till hatching.

In a lot of cases, the failure of the egg is a result of extremely low humidity plus high temperature for instance in small rooms with the heater turned on. In other cases, it is due to unfertilized eggs. Although black soldier fly does not lay eggs if they never mated before, females do have eggs developed in the ovaries regardless of the mating. If the female ever formed a pair with a male, and they got interrupted before they finished, which could be 10-30 minutes, the female will lay all the eggs. Interruptions could be human activities or poor quality of the light source. If this is the case, a big portion of the egg mass is unfertilized and will not hatch. Also, minimizing the interruption due to management will help to increase egg quality.