redhen
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Re:Worms and Maggots (not in the same bin) - 2007/11/29 16:12
We all know how beneficial worms are, but they're limited to mostly organic waste, staying away from the meat and milk product and biproducts.
Worms would love meat and dairy, most do not put those things in an indoor worm bin mostly due to smell and attracting varmints.
What if you get your food sources in, the ones that are mixed, from say a cafeteria or even a fast food restaurant. Take the entire thing and feed it to maggots. Harvest the maggot poo, mix it with pure sources like manure, grass/leaf cuttings, shredded paper etc and then feed it to the worms.
Take a look at this site:
http://www.esrint.com/Bio.html
I have one of these units that I have been field testing for them:http://www.esrint.com/bioconvers.html
I have mine, with the bottom drilled out, set on top of a worm bin. There is no need to harvest the BSF manure, which is very liquid-y. It just drains down into the worm bin.
The first draw back would be the adult stage of the maggots, the pesty fly. But what if it was created like most fly traps, they get in, but can't get out. Maybe a tall bin with an electric zapper top. When the maggots turn into the flying pest, zap. So you have beneficial maggots, no pesty flies.
BSF are not pests and it's presence will in fact reduce housefly population.
If you kill off the adults there will be no larvae as the eggs cannot be laid.
Susan Quinby-Honer
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