Description
What is Black Soldier Fly Larvae ?
On the fast track to sustainability, the Black Soldier Fly industry is starting to emerge as an essential component of various animal food ingredients, you’ll find it now in a range of cat and dog foods for example. To raise Black Soldier Flies our suppliers use pre-consumer waste food that would otherwise be sent to landfills. The larvae are then harvested and oven dried and due this more natural process of drying in the oven, our larvae is jam packed with all the proteins, fat, minerals and amino acids your pets and wildlife require
Wormganix Larvae are 100% natural with no chemicals used at any stage of the process
What makes ours so special ?
You can see the Wormganix brand looks different to it’s competitors, that is because they have been dried in an oven, hence its dark colour. The cheaper brands are imported from the Far East (ours are European) and sterilised in a microwave -and as a direct result the protein and calcium content in ours are higher
Do not confuse Black Soldier Fly larvae with mealworm Dried mealworms as a food source has proven to be problematic due to an imbalanced calcium/phosphorus ratio. By contrast ours have a well-balanced calcium-phosphorus ratio, essential for health. Because the calcium content with respect to phosphorus in the dried mealworm is so low, companies that sell mealworms as poultry or reptile food dust them with calcium first before bagging and selling obviously this does not happen with ours
Here at Wormganix we take pride at ensuring we know exactly what the wildlife and pets will be feeding on, so it has been laboratory tested, here’s the results
Crude protein 39.80%, Crude fat, total 39,20 %, Crude fibre 7,50 %, Sodium (Na) 0,10 %
Calcium (Ca) 0,50 %, Phosphorus (P) 0,80 %, Sodium (Na) 0,10 %
Amino acids - Lysine 1,93 %, Methionine sulfone 0,52 %, Cysteic acid 0,25 %
Threonine 1,32 %, Valine 2,16 %, Arginine 1,72 % Tryptophan 0,48 %
Who can I feed the Larvae to ?
Koi Carp / Pond Fish
A very Nutritional Treat for Koi, Goldfish and other Garden Pond Fish to boost colours and vitality and overall health. We recommend that this is offered as a treat food as part of a complete diet. A wholly natural food, with no added colours, preservatives or flavourings, you can be confident that your fish will be beautifully healthy all year round.
Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs are chiefly insectivores, often travelling a mile or more by night in search of food, by feeding them with Hog Nosh you are supplementing their natural diet. Our larvae has a well-balanced calcium-phosphorus ratio, essential for hedgehog health.
Wild Birds
Invite Bluetits, Woodpeckers, Robins, and Blackbirds into your garden with this protein packed bag of Black Soldier Fly Bird Food. This particular food is high in protein and natural oils & fat which makes it a filling energy source for your favourite wildlife - especially when other food sources may not be available all year round.
Chickens
Good strong eggshells and proper endocrine function depend on calcium content and its relationship with phosphorus in their food, and these larvae certainly deliver
These dried larvae are approximately 40% crude protein. Because feathers are about 90% protein, increasing your chickens’ protein during molting will help them during the time they are re-growing their feathers.
Chicks fed on a diet containing dried black soldier fly larvae as the protein supplement have been shown to gain weight at a rate of almost double those fed on soybean plus fat meal.