Worms & Black Soldier Flies: Interview of Wyoming (NSW) worm farmer Huy by ABC Radio Central Coast

quochuy (72) in dsound • 5 years ago (edited)

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Earlier on this year, I was contacted by ABC Radio Central Coast for a little interview about Black Soldier Fly during their program "Breakfast, with Scott Levi". This is a quick introduction about these amazing critters that I'm using mainly for composting food scraps in complement to the compost worms.

Correction from the interview:
The Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) is not a native soldier fly, it's been introduced in Australia but is now occuring world wide. However, Australia does have native soldier flies such as the Garden Soldier Fly (Exaireta spinigera) or the two new species Hermetia hauseri and Hermetia olympiae.

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whyaskwhy (60) · 5 years ago

Black Soldier Fly introduced into Australia? From where??

I thought , it was native to Australia!

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quochuy (72) · 5 years ago

I thought that too but I looked on the web to confirm and saw several articles including this one that mentioned it https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/Carrion_flies_of_Australia/Hermetia_illucens.htm

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breezin (69) · 5 years ago

This is brilliant - I started with bsf earlier this year, I am still at a point of tweaking my system, but it is looking great so far

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quochuy (72) · 5 years ago

Very good. Do you also have compost worms?

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breezin (69) · 5 years ago

I do, I converted a old 8000 L water tank for the purpose.

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quochuy (72) · 5 years ago

Eight thousand litres? Wow that’s a lot of worms in there

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breezin (69) · 5 years ago

The tank used to be 8000 L but I cut the top off, so its probably round 5000 ish now. hahaha, started off with 500 worms. but they populate as the bin fills up, then once ready the excess worms, tea and castings gets worked back into the gardens, orchards and net-houses.
this is a pic of the tank when I was starting it up.

beneficial entomology plays a crucial role in sustainable living.

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quochuy (72) · 5 years ago

Still makes a 40 gal barrel or a bathtub looks like a baby compare to it hahahaha. The great thing in a bin that large is maintenance is simplified and you could feed all types of fruits and vegs even those not recommended to worms.

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breezin (69) · 5 years ago

Another great thing is that you can migrate the worms to one spot if you would like to harvest some castings, by simply centralising the feeding space.

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jagged (59) · 5 years ago

very enlightening

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quochuy (72) · 5 years ago

Thank you

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