I noticed that the eyeball wasn't gotten into. I wonder why?
I've been reading this blog intently for about a week. I stumbled on to bsfl a few months ago while going through my manure/compost/red wriggler beds.
At first, like some other folks, I got rid of them thinking they would be bad for my worms. Once I found out what they were, it has been nonstop feeding and learning. It seems I am going through all the same hard knocks as you and others. My latest lesson was this:
I cleaned ten rabbits about 4 lbs each the day before we went out of state to see my parents for 5 days. Evening before we left, I put all ten rabbits's internals (stomaches full of rabbit food too) into my Larvae bin. When we got back home I had to look inside first thing. All the internals were 95%? gone, but I had alot of premature crawloff and lots of larvae drowned due to high temps. and too much moisture content. Yesterday morning early, I put in a quart bag of catfish fillets that were freezer burnt, 10 rabbit livers and hearts. Today I put a half cup of Lousiana Fish Fry on top of that. Some used coffee grounds and two tomatoes also. I will have to add high starch/Dry Items for a week or so now to get the population back up. Something that I found by accident when making my worm/larvae bin was I had drilled 1/64" holes in the top, sides, and bottom for air and drainage for a worm bin. What happened then was the BSF laid her eggs just outside the small holes and the larvae found their way in and the regular flies couldn't get in to regurgitate sp? their maggot eggs and so this particular worm bin went from worms and pods to a co'existing situation to a thriving larvae bin to a too hot, too much moisture, and premature crawloff. I did have a few good hand fulls of Larvae in my container though. Some of them were not quite ready to migrate and were about 1/2" long. They went into the freezer with the others. Always learning and hope you can add to this! Thanks for starting this Blog. Bill
