I drilled holes in the bottom of a cool whip container, filled it with pancakes and strawberries and placed it on the compost pile. Black soldier fly larvae love strawberries. For more info on soldier flies and the beneficial larvae, check out the links below.

Links: Black Soldier Fly – Wikipedia | The BioPod | Black Soldier Fly Blog 1 | Black Soldier Fly Blog 2

Opening your compost bin and finding these critters can be quite a surprise. The BSFL are in my DIY compost can. I also had these black soldier fly larvae in my outdoor worm bins. I spent hours trying to get these guys out of the worm bins. I ended up searching google for “white worm maggots”, “compost maggots”, “white bugs in compost pile”. It turns out that the black soldier fly larvae are great composters and the red wigglers like to eat what the black soldier flies leave behind. The black soldier fly larvae are beneficial to the composting process. They help to compost kitchen scraps in very small amounts of time. As an additional bonus, the adult flies don’t carry pathogens and are not interested in entering your home like normal house flies. For more info on soldier flies and the beneficial larvae, check out the links below.

Links: Black Soldier Fly – Wikipedia | The BioPod | Black Soldier Fly Blog 1 | Black Soldier Fly Blog 2