Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

I had a report (unconfirmed sighting) from Margaret River way, that hundreds were seen hanging on boronia bushes.
Perhaps attracted to the strong scent???

Mate I'll bring you some down next month and you can have another go.

To tide you over, here's a photo of the 1.1kg that I've fozen so far....

They look delicious Nigel but please do bring them down and we will have another, nother go

Who needs them?? Who says there are none around?? I have just a couple in my Bunnings 200ltr Water tank converted to Compost bin Shade cloth crunched up in bottom to let the goodie juices flow through and out the tap.... I need to put in a bath drain and pipe for self harvest.... at the moment i just go grab a handleful wash then throw to fishes.....the larvae squeee through the lid when they need to do the naughty thing and populate....As you can see no shortage.....

Heaps here at the moment also. I don't have a biopod or a nockpod, but I do have a pile of chicken shit down in my garden which got wet over Xmas in the big rains and ended up full of soldier fly larvae. Lovely

hahahahahaha... I like it VB... Who needs fancy contraptions when you have a pile of chicken shit down the back.

Not that I'd want to harvest them Joel

Yeah, thanks guys - now I even appreciate the self-harvesting nature of the biopod even more

Hey - Chillidude, you've got exactly the same scales as me, except I've only got one set

Yeah, we should form a club - Rick down at Narrogin also has them I've noticed !

wow sounds like fun, do you all need a secretary

Chillidude has contributed to populating Narrogin with BSF's, our second try after Fayes contribution in October, so the pod is loaded with leftovers awaiting the harvest, I know the pod works because of huge blow fly harvest a couple of months ago, so no blowies around now and should get the real thing in a few days

Of course your not going to feed them all to the red fin now are you.... Good luck with them...

Yeah, we shoulda tried a couple in with the fish - took about 200+ so had them to spare.

I have been working on a biopod setup and the one I have seems to work. The real problem with these systems it making a harvest system/bug ladder. This is what I came up with. The ladder is made out of a strip of doormat that is common here. They often have a white daisy on them. I never had a good colony going in the bucket being winter but some of them did climb up and into the collector. Next summer I will have a better chance to test.