GW, thanks for the attention, I have a bunch of 5 qt plastic buckets and lots of sphagnum peat, so I'll set up a puparium. So that you'll know where I'm coming from, I'm on the east slope of the Rockies at 5000 ft, a "semi-arid" climate, with warm days, cool nights, and low humidity. I've never seen a native BSF, but then I wasn't looking. August is sort of unstable, with days of 80s-90s and nights of 40s-50s. When the Biopod was active, it maintained a temp of about 100F, but with the mass pupation the pod temp dropped to ambient temps; for this reason I brought the pod indoors to keep it about 75F. According to the literature, the grubs will continue to eat at low temps but won't metamorphose. But, mine did, en masse. And the tan grubs that remained were fat and torpid, barely moving. I like your suggestion of weekly ordering to keep the pod active, but I'd really like to establish a self-propagating population, but I'm realizing that may not be an eventuality in this geographical area. It is one thing to insulate an active pod and keep it working over a cold winter, but it is something else to make it self-propagating. It will be an interesting winter.
