One of Asia’s top universities, the National University of Singapore is farming Black Soldier Flies (BSF) and Singapore’s first-ever BSF farm has opened up.
Did you know that Black Soldier Flies are found all over Singapore?
There’s an old essay written by the founder of Temple University Russell Conwell called “Acres of Diamonds”, a true story about a guy who owned a large tract of land in Africa, and sold it all to buy up some diamond mining equipment. He set off across the continent to seek his fortune. Never found it, died despondent.
Here’s the kicker: the land he sold to finance his search for diamonds actually was found to contain the richest diamond mine in the history of the world, the Kimberly Mine.
The guy was living in the middle of his own acres of diamonds and didn’t know it. Deep lesson there.
Guess what? Singapore is filled with Black Soldier Flies in the wild.
Shout out to our readers and listeners in Singapore!
“We are trying to optimise their mating system so that we get these super egg layers, fast growers and efficient recyclers,” said Assistant Professor Nalini Puniamoorthy from NUS’ Department of Biological Sciences. Meanwhile, in Jalan Penjara near Queenstown, Singapore’s first insect farm – Insectta – was set up in March last year. About 500kg of food waste from food suppliers, stalls and homes is recycled each day by about 100kg of black soldier fly larvae.
