Student Instructions
Food Wastage🥬🍉🍜🍟🧺- Black Soldier Fly (BSF) Larvae🐛
Hermetia illucens, the black soldier fly, is a common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae. Since the late 20th century, has increasingly been gaining attention because of its usefulness for recycling organic waste and generating animal feed.
Response:
Pg:1 - Research Link🔗- Use to gather information on:
a. Overview, description
b. Life cycle, reproduction
c. Diet, habitat
Pg:2-4 - Report Presentation on information gathered. Use the templates (and add your own) to highlight the different aspects of the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) that you have researched.
Pg:5 - How can the BFS help reduce Food Wastage?
Pg:6 - Video
Report - Create a video summarising all the important information you have gathered about the BSF.
Pg: 7-12 Black Soldier Fly QUIZZ
When complete
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An activity to do independently or as part of the Food & Fibre topic. Ideas from various sites : https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=20d11f431ee94e02&sca_upv=1&sxsrf=ADLYWIIvg303R9KSZU-0uzaq_jZ9hw8hrw:1718595379061&q=farming+black+soldier+fly&source=lnms&fbs=AEQNm0CrHVBV9axs7YmgJiq-TjYcM9ybtxEfTJJw2XIgVlxk6pUGND-csTMCH8sAD3f1exopXFn-93lpd6l5I6IzAQPck4N7dJ8HkSsAQ-IaljspuT8_wnxZA0Alvjr7EEdyPH2DgQQJtS_DjSPFFxMOvFEAygLJ0ZozJvVBWRB6J-8Wd_kSDsNZKpLLs0XKg41yHSSPJqb1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwoNPY2uGGAxXcZ2wGHb2WCW8Q0pQJegQIERAB&biw=1024&bih=659&dpr=1.25