South Wales is in the U.K. Funnily enough it's the southern part of the country of Wales. New South Wales is a State (apparently) in Australia. Be careful not to confuse with a region. It's too much for some people to handle it seems.
She found out that she could feed chickens their natural diet instead of nasty kibble? What a proud moment. (/snark) I love seeing/hearing people learn. Knowing that she was not being too afraid/stubborn to reevaluate and revise goals is a most valuable thing.
I thought of this kind of feeding for my chickens twenty years ago, mainly because this is how many African farmers feed their layers, and the quality of eggs your chickens pay on insect feed is vastly better than when on standard grain feed. I actually let my Chickens roam around in my garden, without much consequence to the veggies I grew because the insects were far more desirable for them than the veggies, except the spinach, never leave chickens unattended around spinach because as soon as they realize that it is a tasty treat, your spinach plants will be leafless in 3.7 seconds, So I just put some chicken wire around my Spinach and let the hens roam, and not only was my garden free from all kinds of insect problems, but the Eggs were so delicious that we sold them out in less than 30 minutes from the opening of the Farmer's market! And you know what I mean, those free-range eggs with the extra dark orange yolk compared to the emaciate and sallow yellow of the store-bought eggs. The Yolks were so flavorful that people couldn't resist standing in a line to buy Eggs that we actually had to set a limit for each Customer, because, silly me told people how to properly store eggs in a pitcher of water to prevent them from drying out inside and sticking to the shell (thus making it almost impossible to make Sunnyside up eggs because the yolk almost always breaks. On top of that my eggs made such an excellent Eggnog that I won an award for the best tasting Eggnog when I made it fresh for a local food competition, along with a really good Cheesecake that was the best in class for basic cheesecake (aka New York Cheesecake) If you can find eggs from a farmer who feeds them insects, those will be the VASTLY superior eggs to eat, but most places charge a pretty penny for such eggs as labelled "Free Range" because of the darker yolks which most of us desire, although I met someone who did not like the dark yolk eggs, until she actually tried them. I told her to give them a chance and if she still didn't like them after eating two or less I'd buy back the dozen she bought for the same price, and simply add two more eggs from the hens. She came back and bought two more dozen eggs the next week. Quick note to all buyers of eggs from the store, did you know that the eggs you buy from the store, on average are six weeks old, because they hold on to eggs for a certain time because egg producers can have a fluctuating number of eggs, to combat the fluctuating numbers they amass and hold onto eggs for six weeks and as they get more in, the older ones are sent out, thus ensuring they have sufficient numbers and maintain stock in supply for enough time that there is hardly ever a shortage, unless there is a catastrophic disaster in the area and farmers suddenly lose their layers everywhere. And outside of the major cities, eggs are usually locally grown in the region you live in. Specialty eggs are a bit different, like "free Range eggs" and Eggs from other species of birds like Quail, Duck etc..
I give my chickens scratch grains, vegetable scraps, snd I lay down cardboard in their yard for cockroaches to hide under, then I left the cardboard, the roaches run and the chickens scramble to get them. If I find bugs on my plants they get thrown to the wolves, er chickens
Omg I'm in Australia too... what did we learn from someone thinking it was a good idea to introduce cane toads and the rest? I feel like this is a terrible idea.. what if our country gets swarmed by flies laying their maggots everywhere.. introducing pests to a country that has a track record of making things worse by trying to combat issues with introduced species is a proven failed concept. Where do all the flies go? We could have flies and maggots in plague proportions, bugger that
@RyanSymonsyou would think wine is a poor beverage to hide your habit with, its easy to smell. Vodka can at least be explained away as hand sanitizer. Easier to catch a buzz from too
I started a research project in 2006/7 growing black soldier flies. It didn't get of the ground,but it is cool to see that others carried through and made it into large scale use.
As an Australian I feel so much pride in the fact we are the champions of black fly waste it is so wonderful, seriously this is a great idea for the Planet and gardeners and farmers there should be a huge market for this product well done to the maggot farm
You will all be eating these larvae very soon, because there will be no traditional meat to eat. They are desensitizing you now for in the near future.
there is only one root / one reason for all our problems ; we keep trying to patch things up with all kinds of inventions , but the one and only problem we are unwilling to talk about and start solving: WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE !!!!!
@@jimmyboomsma2843 8 billion of us on this planet , we cant sustain the loss of land to humans, but what percentage has all the wealth? Us .. whyte people mainly. Greed is a bigger problem. They don’t care about the land or wildlife, people of conscience care about it, those that live off it do. The majority of substance farmers. Writing in caps “way too many people” solves nothing… what do you propose to solve that?? there are people who actually trying to fix the human problem. Such as the larvae in this video. It will take multiple and varied methods and people who care. So be it.
It's a valid concern since it isn't a native, however, these flies have already made it to every continent (The black soldier fly). They aren't introducing a new fly, they are choosing one that's already there, and due to the lack of mouth parts in its adult form, it's a species that is the least likely to spread disease and wreck crops.
Seeing those landfills it seems like Australia is stuck in the 90s haha Garbage is treasure, European countries even import it, you separate plastics, metals, etc and export the resources.
@lookdawg187 they have more space than most European countries. Besides, you guys export your plastics, which ends up in Asian countries that can't keep up with recycling it. They have warehouses full.
What fantastic innovation! Using nature to fix our bad habits. Also. We live in suburban Adelaide, and from about Jan each year we have the Fruit Fly control ppl just wonder onto our property, to our fruit trees out back looking for fruit fly. Im glad they do!
British Anglers have been using maggots for decades. I remember using maggots as bait back in the sixties and my uncles and father were using them before that. Today a lot of processed foods, such as boiles and pastes usually derived from some sort of flour based ingredient are used as baits, but the humble maggot is still used. There used to be huge maggot farms in the UK before the onslaught of artificial baits. Pinkies, Squats, Maggots are the different larvae from the green and blue bottle flies , if I remember rightly greenbottle flies come from fish, and bluebottle flies come from meat. Maggots are also dyed in red or bronze to help catch fish When the maggot becomes mature it turns into a chrysalis or pupa stage, the common term in angling circles is casters, also used as bait, then it hatches into a fly. Many a time I’ve left my maggots in my garden shed during hot weather, and when I’ve gone back to the shed and opened the door a huge swarm of flies have swarm towards me and the light When I’m fishing, I often feed the birds around me, they always know anglers carry food, especially the Robins
I am involved in BSF animal feed manufacture in Africa. This is the first time I have heard about Australia's involvement in this kind of animal feed production. This is a large scale operation indeed.
Gotera is actually located in the ACT, Australian Capital Territory not NSW, New South Wales. I live in Canberra ACT and had no idea this existed so I’m very happy to say thank you for the information.
@@WiLLiAMOnline Wrong. "Maggot is a young insect before it grows wings and legs and becomes a fly. Worm is a small animal with a long thin body and no eyes, bones or legs. Grub is the first form that an insect takes when it comes out of the egg." You don't have to thank me.
@@vincentwong1127 Witchetty grub aka the larval form of the ghost gum moth were an important food item for indigenous people They supposedly taste like peanut butter
"In Indonesia, the waste problem is the same for everyone." He shows a clip of Costa Georgiadis, a Greek guy who hosts the TV show Gardening Australia 🙄
South Wales is in the UK, New South Wales which is a state of Australia. Yes there is an insect farm in Canberra. Soldier fly lava actually consume protein in composting process.
I feed freeze dried Black Soldierfly larva to my chickens (two rescued roosters). They're healthier for chickens and more eco-friendly than mealworms, and I think I recall reading that they're also less likely to give your pets gastrointestinal distress (too much chitin can build up in intestines and cause blockages). I say we welcome these little bug buddies where we can. :3 One thing to note, though. I mix mealworms and soldierflies together to give my boys some choice, and I have noticed individual birds seem to have a preference. That, and when my recently passed boy was in his last days of fighting cancer, he switched to preferring mealworms. They have different fat and protein levels, so it's worth considering that when offering to your birds. I don't recall which is which at the moment, but you'd want to avoid the one with higher fat if your birds are already a healthy weight, but avoid the ones with higher protein if you're already feeding a diet higher in protein (too much can damage the kidneys). Also remember, it might not seem like much at all, but the MAXIMUM amount of treats per day you should give any bird is about eight times the size of their eye. Not their full eyeBALL, but the part we can see between their eyelids. Birds are very delicate animals with very delicate bodies, and doing ANYTHING outside of a scientifically catered diet has the chance to destroy them. Please provide treats responsibly.
❤❤❤Good idea and try. But Wouldnt be cost higher? Examples 1. Extra Manpower at each distribution sites? 2. Setup and Maintenance cost of each containers 3. Collection, processing and redistribution packing of generated products. Hope someone can share the business case.😊
What could go wrong. The release of cane toads to control sugar cane beetles went awry, with Bufo marinus now a significant pest in Australia. It’s rarely a good idea to flood an area with a non-native species, but good luck with it.
No thanks, I like our Dutch system where trash is treasure. Landfills are so 90s. Why waste the resources you can get? I can see tons of plastics that can be recycled right off the bat.
@@lookdawg187 it can also be food for mushrooms and used as building blocks to but the rest can be done this way as the amount of waste especially food etc you would need masses of people trawling through it. Plus you could use the plastic to build as most if Holland is reclaimed land from the sea
@@clivemacken552 masses of people trawling through it? We have machines to clean our trash. We only have people to collect it. And plastic for building? Window panes maybe, but our houses are built from metal or brick. There's tons of unused cargo containers, they're like lego blocks, snap a few together, weld and cut, turn cargo containers into housing units. Repurpose, reuse, recycle. My plastic bottles don't go into the bin, they become pots for my plants. My paper gets recycles, my tin cans do too, my food waste goes into the garden for compost, rest goes into the bin, which gets sorted at processing plant, by machines.
Forty-odd years ago, I read an article in Mother Earth News about 'chicken runs'. So you would have a double wall of chicken wire around your garden crops and they would provide a natural defense against insects. To encourage the chickens to look for insects, they said to just leave boards on the ground in this run and flip them over once in awhile as the insects would congregate there. I imagine adding some food waste under the boards would help as well.
I found this video very interesting, this seems to be the answer to a lot of problems especially in Australia where there is a massive problem with flies , it should be exported to Africa .
As an Aussie who lived in South Wales in the UK for a bit I was confused as to why South Wales never showed up. Instead I learnt that the video creator(s) probably passed geography class in America.
It’s good to hear that the use of larvae is progressing. Let’s hope fish farmers get into this quickly to help save fish stocks for the population of West Africa. This would help the immigrant problem in Europe too.
Apart from the fact that the introduction of an exotic (insect) species always entails an environmental risk, there is also a health risk: - Environment: despite the isolated breeding in 'controlled' conditions, situations will always occur (production interruptions, incorrect procedures, accidents, maintenance, etc.) in which insects escape and can find an ecological niche in which they can survive local conditions (climate, seasons, etc.) and possibly cause damage to infrastructure (buildings, etc.) and/or transmit diseases - Health: closing food cycles in which recycling is incorporated remains risky for the transmission of viruses/bacteria and accumulation of harmful substances (PCB, dioxin, heavy metals, etc.) Careless intermediate treatments can, for example, cause contamination of dangerous thermoresistant bacteria that are difficult to combat. These risks are not only real for humans but also for intermediate links such as livestock farming and aquaculture.
Australia will never learn. How many species have they introduced with huge long-term problems. I'm sure this will be another example in the decades to come.
Make your own compost heap and dump all your food scraps in there. If you live in an apartment, just put a large flower pot on your balcony with some soil on the bottom. Mix your kitchen scraps with dried leaves. Soon, you will have lovely, rich humus, and no garbage. The rest are just recyclables.
Wow ! Most Interesting ! Shocking to know that such creepy & eerie creatures are the most important source for human sustenance,eco-friendly environment & for enhancing the economy ! ❤
My septic tank was full of them in mass, I don't know if they are still in there. I haven't had a look inside my septic tank in years, it was only that i had a fig root that caused a blockage that i investigated the problem and found those worms inside the tank. I new they were doing a good job and did want to disturb them, however i had to have the tank pumped out to fix the problem. I still see the fly around, so that makes me think they are back in there.
Those bloody worm things have taken over my "Worm Farm". I don't really mind, they eat all household scraps faster and still poop out a lot for the gardens, so i'm winning at least there. I'm yet to extract a few for the pet reptiles in this Aussie home though, they look like they could use a bath before entering my lizard pets!
IDK, seems like taking organic matter out of landfills is going to make a barren place where nothing grows and inorganic matter takes even longer to break down.
Hey reminds me. Maybe there is no global warming… everything is just closer to the sun due to being built on land fills. Or the heat created by the landfills is making things hotter. Wait were those just larvae crawling out of a wheel of cheese? Ewe!!
They’re great for freshwater fishing - brown, rainbow trout go nuts for them, as do grayling, and assorted chubb, and carp. Depending on the species and rules when fishing isn’t allowed in Yorkshire, UK we have some great places for the trout and grayling. Occasionally the larvae are sluggish when it’s cold but they’re easy to warm up just by sticking a few under your tongue (there’s no taste and they’re a source of very clean protein so no problem if you swallow a couple in error. If you don’t use your supply it’s important to get rid asap if the weathers warm otherwise you end up with a garage/car boot/storage area full of flies. I’ve referred to the standard type of housefly larvae/maggots some of which were shown in the videos.
Great information sounds like they might be on to something useful that doesn't end up doing more harm than good in Australia any way! Hi Steve, still good looking, especially those eyes! LOL. Catch you next time!
I have a worm farm myself, just because I love spoiling my local wildlife, and they’re pretty expensive to buy. If I had the space, I’d scale it up and go commercial myself. After all, I live on a lake, and my local pet shop is always running out of them. They make great fertilizer too. They practically farm themselves once you build the screens, and they eat scraps, so that’s free. I even grind down egg shells for their calcium.
A university in Ohio, USA was working with this idea about a decade ago. I am not sure if it they still are. It sounds like a great idea. Small farms would be a natural place for this.
The birds far prefer to eat living mealworms, not the freeze dried ones. They don't mention that the droppings that are sifted away from the mealworms are full of eggs and it will hatch lots more larvae that will mature into worms wherever you leave the waste. In fact you can buy "worm castings" which has this same type of material interspersed within compost that you can stir into your garden soil to hatch larvae that will mature into earthworms. You could even use it for raising live bait for fishing, it just takes time though.
No, they are not, because they need alot of organic waste and you normaly don't have that much waste in current space operations or even in near future ones.
Homeless people aren't an economically viable venture and destined to be scraped like other poor venture ideas. Thinking about the theme of this video maybe Soylent Green will eventually become a thing :(
It's a good idea but a little risky. The larva are a better food for chickens then grain, but if a chemical that bioaccumulates gets into this food waste - larva - livestock cycle, it will build up.
We have black soldier flies, we don’t have the Goterra system. Perhaps Goterra will come to America. Permaculture, the within the problem is the solution.
I took a 10’ length of 1”x2”x24” welded wire and made a bin into which I dump all the uncontaminated shredded paper that comes into my house, along with all the non meat waste food products. Red wiggler worms just find it. I have to dump and refill the bin twice a year. The worm waste I spread in my garden, food and ornamentals.
The question is, were the people of Cardiff and Swansea consulted about Australia dumping trillions of fly larvae on them? By the way 'larva' is singular the plural is ' larvae' but then irregular plurals are always a bit too complicated for Americans aren't they?
This is the most fascinating video I've seen in ages. Everything made so much sense, apart from the cheese. Even MPFC rat souffle seems palatable compared to that cheese. Disgusting.
Indeed bug farms can also be used to make sustainable feed for aquaculture. No need to eat ze bugs. Give them to animals that are supposed to eat ze bugs and then eat zem.
South Wales is in the U.K. Funnily enough it's the southern part of the country of Wales. New South Wales is a State (apparently) in Australia. Be careful not to confuse with a region. It's too much for some people to handle it seems.
That is correct 💯
Just finished the video. I come here to say this too. Thanks mate.
Typical Americans with their typical lack of knowledge of anything outside the USA.
❤️ 🏴
This.
it's NEW South Wales
this would be like me going to New York and calling it just York
Or Amsterdam
CAN-BERRA.. ooh that stung
Right? 😂
That would piss off the yanks a bit
We have a town in WA called York lol
Or trying to book a flight to New Mexico from Florida and being asked for a passport.
Chickens that eat bugs and larva lay the most delicious eggs with rich orange yokes!
Protein rich
They make great hamburger’s too
@@benjamindejonge3624 the eggs or the chickens?
😊@@benjamindejonge3624
Mmmm .. recycled bug juice in my eggs 😵🥴😁😁
She found out that she could feed chickens their natural diet instead of nasty kibble? What a proud moment. (/snark)
I love seeing/hearing people learn. Knowing that she was not being too afraid/stubborn to reevaluate and revise goals is a most valuable thing.
Should be good food for fish farms also?
So where do you farm?
I have three bird feeders. Two are seeds and one is 50% mealworms and 50% black soldier fly larvae. Birds LOVE them.
I thought of this kind of feeding for my chickens twenty years ago, mainly because this is how many African farmers feed their layers, and the quality of eggs your chickens pay on insect feed is vastly better than when on standard grain feed. I actually let my Chickens roam around in my garden, without much consequence to the veggies I grew because the insects were far more desirable for them than the veggies, except the spinach, never leave chickens unattended around spinach because as soon as they realize that it is a tasty treat, your spinach plants will be leafless in 3.7 seconds, So I just put some chicken wire around my Spinach and let the hens roam, and not only was my garden free from all kinds of insect problems, but the Eggs were so delicious that we sold them out in less than 30 minutes from the opening of the Farmer's market! And you know what I mean, those free-range eggs with the extra dark orange yolk compared to the emaciate and sallow yellow of the store-bought eggs. The Yolks were so flavorful that people couldn't resist standing in a line to buy Eggs that we actually had to set a limit for each Customer, because, silly me told people how to properly store eggs in a pitcher of water to prevent them from drying out inside and sticking to the shell (thus making it almost impossible to make Sunnyside up eggs because the yolk almost always breaks. On top of that my eggs made such an excellent Eggnog that I won an award for the best tasting Eggnog when I made it fresh for a local food competition, along with a really good Cheesecake that was the best in class for basic cheesecake (aka New York Cheesecake) If you can find eggs from a farmer who feeds them insects, those will be the VASTLY superior eggs to eat, but most places charge a pretty penny for such eggs as labelled "Free Range" because of the darker yolks which most of us desire, although I met someone who did not like the dark yolk eggs, until she actually tried them. I told her to give them a chance and if she still didn't like them after eating two or less I'd buy back the dozen she bought for the same price, and simply add two more eggs from the hens. She came back and bought two more dozen eggs the next week. Quick note to all buyers of eggs from the store, did you know that the eggs you buy from the store, on average are six weeks old, because they hold on to eggs for a certain time because egg producers can have a fluctuating number of eggs, to combat the fluctuating numbers they amass and hold onto eggs for six weeks and as they get more in, the older ones are sent out, thus ensuring they have sufficient numbers and maintain stock in supply for enough time that there is hardly ever a shortage, unless there is a catastrophic disaster in the area and farmers suddenly lose their layers everywhere. And outside of the major cities, eggs are usually locally grown in the region you live in. Specialty eggs are a bit different, like "free Range eggs" and Eggs from other species of birds like Quail, Duck etc..
I give my chickens scratch grains, vegetable scraps, snd I lay down cardboard in their yard for cockroaches to hide under, then I left the cardboard, the roaches run and the chickens scramble to get them. If I find bugs on my plants they get thrown to the wolves, er chickens
I like your info about storing eggs uncooked in water to keep them from drying out. Thanks ☺️
Very informative. Thanks.
@patriciapage2109 Yes, this is called a water bath preservation method.
You're lucky my chickens, turkeys, and ducks found my garden and ate the whole thing in one day. About an acre all gone.
As an aussie, we got enough flies
Ya got that right
Omg I'm in Australia too... what did we learn from someone thinking it was a good idea to introduce cane toads and the rest? I feel like this is a terrible idea.. what if our country gets swarmed by flies laying their maggots everywhere.. introducing pests to a country that has a track record of making things worse by trying to combat issues with introduced species is a proven failed concept. Where do all the flies go? We could have flies and maggots in plague proportions, bugger that
As an Aussie, you should have noticed that it ought to be NEW South Wales, and not just South Wales, and spoken up.
Haha true, at least these are soldier flies not the regular C words we normally put up with lol
you can make a fly burger
This is my 8-year-old son's favorite channel by far.
He'll grow up to respect science like so many of don't. Good job dude
You better tell him that "South Wales" is in the U.K. and that they got it wrong for this video. Nip incorrect information in the Bud ASAP.
I think New South Wales is in Australia 🌏.
@@patriciapage2109 Yes New South Wales is in Australia, The title in the video has the wrong location
be sure he knows the difference between insects and worms
"...And everything left over from making wine" Shows a paper coffee cup. 🤣
@RyanSymonsyou would think wine is a poor beverage to hide your habit with, its easy to smell. Vodka can at least be explained away as hand sanitizer. Easier to catch a buzz from too
Haha
Was that cup actually paper? Some cups and even their lids are made from organic materials and therefore perfect food for the larvae.
@@trevorhoward7682 I just thought the timing was funny, haha. Could have been made from anything... Still would have laughed.
I started a research project in 2006/7 growing black soldier flies. It didn't get of the ground,but it is cool to see that others carried through and made it into large scale use.
WHY????????????? NO one wants more flies.
This is different. Animal feed.
My aquarium fish already eat these maggots... Fluval Bug Bites fish flakes.
@@leonardodalongisland not all flies are the same. Its only a few species that will try to fly up your nose or bite you.
@@CheleGreysky You are welcome to all of them :)
As an Australian I feel so much pride in the fact we are the champions of black fly waste it is so wonderful, seriously this is a great idea for the Planet and gardeners and farmers there should be a huge market for this product well done to the maggot farm
Me too! What a great idea. Next we need something to eat plastics.
You will all be eating these larvae very soon, because there will be no traditional meat to eat. They are desensitizing you now for in the near future.
there is only one root / one reason for all our problems ; we keep trying to patch things up with all kinds
of inventions , but the one and only problem we are unwilling to talk about and start solving:
WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE !!!!!
@@jimmyboomsma2843 8 billion of us on this planet , we cant sustain the loss of land to humans, but what percentage has all the wealth? Us .. whyte people mainly. Greed is a bigger problem. They don’t care about the land or wildlife, people of conscience care about it, those that live off it do. The majority of substance farmers.
Writing in caps “way too many people” solves nothing… what do you propose to solve that?? there are people who actually trying to fix the human problem. Such as the larvae in this video. It will take multiple and varied methods and people who care. So be it.
@@jimmyboomsma2843 Death cult member. You’ve been brainwashed.
Hopefully bringing in the flies into Australia doesn't do the damage that a few other imports like cane toads, rabbits and foxes have done.
It's a valid concern since it isn't a native, however, these flies have already made it to every continent (The black soldier fly). They aren't introducing a new fly, they are choosing one that's already there, and due to the lack of mouth parts in its adult form, it's a species that is the least likely to spread disease and wreck crops.
hate corn toads
And carp
My thoughts exactly!
And European prisoners ...
"you will eat ze bugs own nothing and be happy" Klaus Schwab.
Tell me again they're breeding for biodegradable reasons...
you musta eat zee bug to grow up be da strong commrad
Great sobody on my page
The rich eat at the restaurant, the leftovers go to the bugs, the bugs go... 🤪
@@gargoyle7863 Well, either this or Soyl... ahem, yeah
But you get to eat them as chicken eggs 😋
This is one of the best examples of human ingenuity and our problem solving abilities.
Seeing those landfills it seems like Australia is stuck in the 90s haha
Garbage is treasure, European countries even import it, you separate plastics, metals, etc and export the resources.
@@lookdawg187 This!
@lookdawg187 they have more space than most European countries. Besides, you guys export your plastics, which ends up in Asian countries that can't keep up with recycling it. They have warehouses full.
@@honeybunch5765 yeah I know we export resources. Plastic is a resource.
Im glad Astrailia is trying.
However, every time they do something like this, there are unseen results
What fantastic innovation! Using nature to fix our bad habits. Also. We live in suburban Adelaide, and from about Jan each year we have the Fruit Fly control ppl just wonder onto our property, to our fruit trees out back looking for fruit fly. Im glad they do!
South Wales is not in Australia, also you have WA in the wrong part of Australia.😂😂
WA if the branding of this channel lol
Was gonna say its upside down.
Hahah thats a good catch. I doubt everyone will get that WA is a state on the opposite side of Australia (as well as the channels logo, yes)
He's a flog 😂
@@technocurry I live in WA I was wondering at first why its on the wrong side until I realised its the Logo
British Anglers have been using maggots for decades.
I remember using maggots as bait back in the sixties and my uncles and father were using them before that.
Today a lot of processed foods, such as boiles and pastes usually derived from some sort of flour based ingredient are used as baits, but the humble maggot is still used.
There used to be huge maggot farms in the UK before the onslaught of artificial baits.
Pinkies, Squats, Maggots are the different larvae from the green and blue bottle flies , if I remember rightly greenbottle flies come from fish, and bluebottle flies come from meat. Maggots are also dyed in red or bronze to help catch fish
When the maggot becomes mature it turns into a chrysalis or pupa stage, the common term in angling circles is casters, also used as bait, then it hatches into a fly.
Many a time I’ve left my maggots in my garden shed during hot weather, and when I’ve gone back to the shed and opened the door a huge swarm of flies have swarm towards me and the light
When I’m fishing, I often feed the birds around me, they always know anglers carry food, especially the Robins
I am involved in BSF animal feed manufacture in Africa. This is the first time I have heard about Australia's involvement in this kind of animal feed production. This is a large scale operation indeed.
That is genius. I hope it works as advertised.
Gotera is actually located in the ACT, Australian Capital Territory not NSW, New South Wales. I live in Canberra ACT and had no idea this existed so I’m very happy to say thank you for the information.
That's what it says in the video
Introducing a new species into Australia? What could go wrong?
Except flies are not new species in Australia.
@@k.vn.k Yeah ask anyone who lives more than 50 miles from the ocean and they will tell you
@@Ktmfan450 even the hat was designed for flies 😝
No one forgot to hit the like button.
You need to watch and listen to this video again.
They ain't worms, them's maggots.
A Maggot is NOT a worm, fly larvae.
@@WiLLiAMOnlineright...lol
@@WiLLiAMOnline Wrong.
"Maggot is a young insect before it grows wings and legs and becomes a fly. Worm is a small animal with a long thin body and no eyes, bones or legs. Grub is the first form that an insect takes when it comes out of the egg."
You don't have to thank me.
@@blindfreddy9157 thankyou anyway ☺
@@WiLLiAMOnline cheers 👍
Finally, companies that are producing bugs that aren't for Human Consumption or saying "You should eat bugs if your care for the environment"
But..but...You should eat bugs if your care for the environment
If you think some form of bugs isn't in the daily stuff you consume then you have a rude awakening. Food dyes alone typically come from bugs
@@vincentwong1127 Witchetty grub aka the larval form of the ghost gum moth were an important food item for indigenous people
They supposedly taste like peanut butter
And you belive them? Enjoy your bugs. Give an inch and they will feed you thier crap next.
Insects are the most consumed source of Protein in the world. There's nothing wrong with eating Bugs. We all have consumed Bugs, and we do it often.
"In Indonesia, the waste problem is the same for everyone."
He shows a clip of Costa Georgiadis, a Greek guy who hosts the TV show Gardening Australia 🙄
That p*ssed me off too!
😂
South Wales is in the UK, New South Wales which is a state of Australia. Yes there is an insect farm in Canberra. Soldier fly lava actually consume protein in composting process.
In the map of Australia (0:58) the WA logo should be on the western side. That is the state of Western Australia (imaginative) commonly called "WA".
I thought that too, at first, but then I realised it's the channel's logo and they're using it to show where NSW is.
It's you tube, facts ruin the story line, no doubt this is to become a new world order conspiracy, eat bugs, here's proof thing🥱🥱🥱
Or South Wales...
I woke up in South Wales to this and almost had an epi. It's NEW South Wales you muppet!
I feed freeze dried Black Soldierfly larva to my chickens (two rescued roosters). They're healthier for chickens and more eco-friendly than mealworms, and I think I recall reading that they're also less likely to give your pets gastrointestinal distress (too much chitin can build up in intestines and cause blockages). I say we welcome these little bug buddies where we can. :3
One thing to note, though. I mix mealworms and soldierflies together to give my boys some choice, and I have noticed individual birds seem to have a preference. That, and when my recently passed boy was in his last days of fighting cancer, he switched to preferring mealworms. They have different fat and protein levels, so it's worth considering that when offering to your birds. I don't recall which is which at the moment, but you'd want to avoid the one with higher fat if your birds are already a healthy weight, but avoid the ones with higher protein if you're already feeding a diet higher in protein (too much can damage the kidneys).
Also remember, it might not seem like much at all, but the MAXIMUM amount of treats per day you should give any bird is about eight times the size of their eye. Not their full eyeBALL, but the part we can see between their eyelids. Birds are very delicate animals with very delicate bodies, and doing ANYTHING outside of a scientifically catered diet has the chance to destroy them. Please provide treats responsibly.
My chickens LOVE those. ❤
I had to listen three times to figure out you said "Barangaroo" 😂
It sounds good, very good indeed ........ let's just hope it all goes according to plan...!!!
❤❤❤Good idea and try. But Wouldnt be cost higher? Examples
1. Extra Manpower at each distribution sites?
2. Setup and Maintenance cost of each containers
3. Collection, processing and redistribution packing of generated products.
Hope someone can share the business case.😊
South Wales is in the UK.
Western Australia is on the WEST side of Australia.
FFS get an education
Yeah we've never had unintended consequences from using bugs as solutions to problems before....... Everything is A okay! I'm sure of it!!!
Like?
What could go wrong.
The release of cane toads to control sugar cane beetles went awry, with Bufo marinus now a significant pest in Australia.
It’s rarely a good idea to flood an area with a non-native species, but good luck with it.
Thanks for the heads up dude. I just ate part of a snickers bar. I backed out at "it's only going to get worse from here "
This should beee introduced world wide
No thanks, I like our Dutch system where trash is treasure. Landfills are so 90s. Why waste the resources you can get? I can see tons of plastics that can be recycled right off the bat.
@@lookdawg187 it can also be food for mushrooms and used as building blocks to but the rest can be done this way as the amount of waste especially food etc you would need masses of people trawling through it. Plus you could use the plastic to build as most if Holland is reclaimed land from the sea
@@clivemacken552 masses of people trawling through it? We have machines to clean our trash. We only have people to collect it.
And plastic for building? Window panes maybe, but our houses are built from metal or brick. There's tons of unused cargo containers, they're like lego blocks, snap a few together, weld and cut, turn cargo containers into housing units.
Repurpose, reuse, recycle.
My plastic bottles don't go into the bin, they become pots for my plants. My paper gets recycles, my tin cans do too, my food waste goes into the garden for compost, rest goes into the bin, which gets sorted at processing plant, by machines.
If you can’t eat during this video, you’re not really hungry.😊
Forty-odd years ago, I read an article in Mother Earth News about 'chicken runs'. So you would have a double wall of chicken wire around your garden crops and they would provide a natural defense against insects. To encourage the chickens to look for insects, they said to just leave boards on the ground in this run and flip them over once in awhile as the insects would congregate there. I imagine adding some food waste under the boards would help as well.
I found this video very interesting, this seems to be the answer to a lot of problems especially in Australia where there is a massive problem with flies , it should be exported to Africa .
Where in Australia is South Wales!? Never heard of it and "I've been everywhere man..."🎵
As an Aussie who lived in South Wales in the UK for a bit I was confused as to why South Wales never showed up. Instead I learnt that the video creator(s) probably passed geography class in America.
It’s good to hear that the use of larvae is progressing. Let’s hope fish farmers get into this quickly to help save fish stocks for the population of West Africa. This would help the immigrant problem in Europe too.
I live in the U.K. and to my knowledge Australia hasn't brought any of these to 'South Wales.'
Apart from the fact that the introduction of an exotic (insect) species always entails an environmental risk, there is also a health risk:
- Environment: despite the isolated breeding in 'controlled' conditions, situations will always occur (production interruptions, incorrect procedures, accidents, maintenance, etc.) in which insects escape and can find an ecological niche in which they can survive local conditions (climate, seasons, etc.) and possibly cause damage to infrastructure (buildings, etc.) and/or transmit diseases
- Health: closing food cycles in which recycling is incorporated remains risky for the transmission of viruses/bacteria and accumulation of harmful substances (PCB, dioxin, heavy metals, etc.)
Careless intermediate treatments can, for example, cause contamination of dangerous thermoresistant bacteria that are difficult to combat.
These risks are not only real for humans but also for intermediate links such as livestock farming and aquaculture.
Australia will never learn. How many species have they introduced with huge long-term problems. I'm sure this will be another example in the decades to come.
Average Watop watcher: Wow thats so interesting
me: wow that's so interesting
Make your own compost heap and dump all your food scraps in there. If you live in an apartment, just put a large flower pot on your balcony with some soil on the bottom. Mix your kitchen scraps with dried leaves. Soon, you will have lovely, rich humus, and no garbage. The rest are just recyclables.
Wow ! Most Interesting ! Shocking to know that such creepy & eerie creatures are the most important source for human sustenance,eco-friendly environment & for
enhancing the economy ! ❤
Some larvae don’t have a fly cycle. Meal worms have a wingless beetle.
My septic tank was full of them in mass, I don't know if they are still in there. I haven't had a look inside my septic tank in years, it was only that i had a fig root that caused a blockage that i investigated the problem and found those worms inside the tank. I new they were doing a good job and did want to disturb them, however i had to have the tank pumped out to fix the problem. I still see the fly around, so that makes me think they are back in there.
Those bloody worm things have taken over my "Worm Farm". I don't really mind, they eat all household scraps faster and still poop out a lot for the gardens, so i'm winning at least there. I'm yet to extract a few for the pet reptiles in this Aussie home though, they look like they could use a bath before entering my lizard pets!
6:47 Soylent Green 🙂
The South Wales error aside, seeing WA on the wrong side of Australia confused me for a moment.
...but then you realised, like I did, that it's just the channel's logo?
@@RiffRaffMama. That's precisely what I meant by '...confused me for a moment'.
IDK, seems like taking organic matter out of landfills is going to make a barren place where nothing grows and inorganic matter takes even longer to break down.
Hey reminds me. Maybe there is no global warming… everything is just closer to the sun due to being built on land fills. Or the heat created by the landfills is making things hotter. Wait were those just larvae crawling out of a wheel of cheese? Ewe!!
They’re great for freshwater fishing - brown, rainbow trout go nuts for them, as do grayling, and assorted chubb, and carp. Depending on the species and rules when fishing isn’t allowed in Yorkshire, UK we have some great places for the trout and grayling. Occasionally the larvae are sluggish when it’s cold but they’re easy to warm up just by sticking a few under your tongue (there’s no taste and they’re a source of very clean protein so no problem if you swallow a couple in error. If you don’t use your supply it’s important to get rid asap if the weathers warm otherwise you end up with a garage/car boot/storage area full of flies.
I’ve referred to the standard type of housefly larvae/maggots some of which were shown in the videos.
I don't mind the BSF they are slow, no pooping or eating as flies. They also seem to chase away house flies that do poop, throw up and eat as flies.
We're still struggling with Cane Toads heading south.
My chickens love these guys ! I try to grow my own in compost - cant grow enough to feed seven Isa Brown chooks
Black soldier flys have a lot more calcium than meal worms! More calcium for the hens to lay eggs!
As an Australian, I can assure you that we have too many flies, here. Also, Barangaroo rhymes with kangaroo.
Hopefully this works out better than the Rabbits, Alexander Buchanan released in the mid 1800's??
.... and the Break Dancing.
I love this channel. Such random knowledge but researched well.
"just an unobtrusive-"
me: *clicks off video*
why?,,,,i dont get it
But not before leaving a comment 😂
@@YDdraigGoch43and it ends up serving a similar purpose as likes do for the algorithm anyway
@@YDdraigGoch43😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅
Cool story bro
Is the larva art funded by the US govt as well?
One of the million things they piss away our money on.
Great information sounds like they might be on to something useful that doesn't end up doing more harm than good in Australia any way! Hi Steve, still good looking, especially those eyes! LOL. Catch you next time!
It is a bit ironic that the larvae used to reduce the CO2 load are being “put to sleep” using CO2, thereby increasing it.
Was noticed. 😊
Soylent Green!
That's exactly what I was thinking 😳
@@janiceperkins4340me three
SOYLENT GREEN IS INSECTS!
I have a worm farm myself, just because I love spoiling my local wildlife, and they’re pretty expensive to buy. If I had the space, I’d scale it up and go commercial myself. After all, I live on a lake, and my local pet shop is always running out of them. They make great fertilizer too. They practically farm themselves once you build the screens, and they eat scraps, so that’s free. I even grind down egg shells for their calcium.
my daily intake of random facts thank you for another informative video.
A university in Ohio, USA was working with this idea about a decade ago. I am not sure if it they still are. It sounds like a great idea. Small farms would be a natural place for this.
This is really very interesting.
The birds far prefer to eat living mealworms, not the freeze dried ones. They don't mention that the droppings that are sifted away from the mealworms are full of eggs and it will hatch lots more larvae that will mature into worms wherever you leave the waste. In fact you can buy "worm castings" which has this same type of material interspersed within compost that you can stir into your garden soil to hatch larvae that will mature into earthworms. You could even use it for raising live bait for fishing, it just takes time though.
Imagine you are eating a large bowl of Ramen when all of a sudden youtube's autoplay starts this video. This is my life.
Imagine having a cavity in one of your molars while eating Ramen and watching this video
At least its not the video of the African tribe eating really long worms.
NEW South Wales - "South Wales" is part of the the United Kingdom in the northern hemisphere.
these insects seem like they would be amazing for space based operations
No, they are not, because they need alot of organic waste and you normaly don't have that much waste in current space operations or even in near future ones.
@@BgStalker was mostly thinking to cycle bio stuff around space habitats and such rather than what we have currently
Highly entertaining!
And here I thought South Wales was in the UK.
Yes! The state in Australia is New South Wales. NSW
These larva are the biggest breakthrough in agriculture in a hundred years.
It's New South Wales.
Amazing. Thankyou.
Great. Now McDonald’s has an actual reason not to give their extra food to the homeless.
Homeless people aren't an economically viable venture and destined to be scraped like other poor venture ideas. Thinking about the theme of this video maybe Soylent Green will eventually become a thing :(
It's a good idea but a little risky. The larva are a better food for chickens then grain, but if a chemical that bioaccumulates gets into this food waste - larva - livestock cycle, it will build up.
Why can't we get this in America
We have black soldier flies, we don’t have the Goterra system. Perhaps Goterra will come to America. Permaculture, the within the problem is the solution.
Loved it! I'm subscribing to your channel!
Forgets to add "new" to the south wales, then says the names of many things wrong, Agony.
I took a 10’ length of 1”x2”x24” welded wire and made a bin into which I dump all the uncontaminated shredded paper that comes into my house, along with all the non meat waste food products. Red wiggler worms just find it. I have to dump and refill the bin twice a year.
The worm waste I spread in my garden, food and ornamentals.
The question is, were the people of Cardiff and Swansea consulted about Australia dumping trillions of fly larvae on them? By the way 'larva' is singular the plural is ' larvae' but then irregular plurals are always a bit too complicated for Americans aren't they?
I'd wondered the same myself. How do you miss the "New" bit?
I have them in my compost they do a great job
This is the beginning, we'll make too many, so they'll put it in our food
They already do.
My chickens love to eat these larvae. Very nutritious and apparently very tasty.
will we soon see a large larvae fence?
This is the most fascinating video I've seen in ages. Everything made so much sense, apart from the cheese. Even MPFC rat souffle seems palatable compared to that cheese. Disgusting.
Just cos Australia don't have enough flies .. 😶🙄
As a Swiss ..Landfills are looking totally insane ... i thought only poor People have them but its just the Standard of the whole world😅
Everyone is saying this. But, it's NEW South Wales
Chicken food, that’s saved you 25 minutes.
Look at all of that fish bait that'll help me catch bait fish.
That sounds like a food chain. Bug, bait fish, fish that you eat.
Indeed bug farms can also be used to make sustainable feed for aquaculture. No need to eat ze bugs. Give them to animals that are supposed to eat ze bugs and then eat zem.
Good closed loop!!!
why apologize to someone who decided to eat to a video specifically about millions of worms if they couldnt handle it
French Toast tastes great right now in my favourite restaurant. I can handle it. I'm Aussie.
Yay youngster! You got it! Everyone else is just too use to easy food