Black Soldier Fly (BSF) are insects  belonging to the dipteran family. Yeah you heard it right, the same family where our  most trouble some  house flies belonging to. But BSF are neither harmful nor a trouble causing insect like house fly. They comes under the category of friendly insects. Just like an earthworms known to the friend of farmers these black soldier flies are friends of the whole mankind by serving a major role managing organic waste. So what if i tell you this black soldier fly has no mouth parts! You might be wondering what am i saying, how does an insect that too with out any mouth parts could solve the issues of wet waste management. Well I'm saying the truth. An adult BSF has no mouth parts and they live only for a couple of days. With in this short span of time the only job they do is to find their mate and give birth to new generation. The actual game players are these young ones called the Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL).

An adult fly lays around 600-800 eggs at a time. These eggs hatches on the 5th day called 5 DOL (5 day old larvae). The female fly lay egg with an intention that the hatched 5 DOLS should be able to reach a food source. So they lay eggs on the crevices  near to a decaying organic matter. The larvae has mouth parts and the food they consume during the larval stage is the source of energy for the rest of their life. If such a condition has happened to you what would you do?. will eat as much as you can, right? Exactly that is what these larvae also does. They eat ferociously and store them as proteins, fats and lipids in their body. These highly proteinaceous larvae are edible for humans and can be used as feed for chicken, duck, fish and pigs. The life cycle of these flies are give below;