Maggot Cultivation and Potential Profits
Cultivation of Magot and its Potential Benefits – Hearing the word maggot for some clouds may still sound foreign to the ear. However, when we hear the word maggots, we may have heard it often and are more familiar because of its ridiculous shape and make goosebumps.
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Maggots or in other words called maggots are larvae of the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) or Hermetia illucens in Latin. As already mentioned, maggots are larvae of a type of fly that originally came from eggs and metamorphosed into adult flies.
Maggot’s body is black and at first glance similar to a wasp. Who would have thought behind it all, maggot has the potential to be cultivated. For some people, maggot cultivation is a tantalizing potential to be developed.
Maggot Cultivation Great Potential
Maggot cultivation is not so difficult to develop, considering that maggot breeds naturally in nature so it is easy to get it. Maggot survives in tropical and subtropical environments so the potential to breed it is very easy to do in Indonesia, which has a tropical climate.
Maggot breeding is in clean media, namely in media that smells of fermentation so that BSF flies do not invite disease. BSF flies are animals that have natural antibiotics in their bodies that make them not carry disease.
It is different when compared to green flies which usually breed on dirty or rotten media so that they are easy to bring in germs and bacteria. To bring maggot is basically quite easy. As already mentioned that BSF flies breed in media containing fermentation, so to lure them to come we only need a fermented medium so that BSF flies breed in the prepared place.
Maggot Cultivation Steps
The following steps can be taken to lure BSF flies so that they can be bred as maggot cultivation efforts.
Materials needed
Bran or bran as much as 5 kg
EM4 or can be replaced with 1 bottle of Yakult
Sugar 5 tablespoons
1 liter of water
Flavoring
Equipment needed
Buckets (1 large and 1 small) or replaceable with trays
Rope to tie
Clear plastic bag
Leaves or food scraps
Steps
First, prepare a small bucket and fill it with 1 liter of water. Add sugar and EM4 or Yakult then stir until blended.
Prepare a large bucket and fill it with bran or rice bran and add flavoring with the aim of making the aroma more pungent to attract BSF flies. Mix well
Mix the solution from the small bucket to the large bucket little by a little while stirring until smooth. The mixture of the two is neither too dry nor too wet.
Put the mixture of the two in a clear plastic half only and tie the ends because the bran will ferment and release gas so there needs to be air space for fermentation gas. Tie the end of the clear plastic with raffia and store it in a cool place and wait for 4-5 days.
After 4-5 days, the plastic bag can be opened. Fermentation is successful if the aroma of fermentation appears, which is a tape-like aroma.
Fermented bran or bran can be stored in a safe place from disturbing animals and covered with leaves or can be sprinkled with leftover food on top of the mixture. The maximum temperature for maggot storage is between 30-38 degrees Celsius. It is better if the storage area gets enough sunlight to keep the cage warm to help the egg hatching process and air circulation must also be good.
The aroma from the fermentation will lure BSF flies to land and lay eggs around the fermented bran.
BSF flies will lay eggs on fermenting media for approximately 1-3 days. Then these eggs will hatch and move by themselves and eat the food in the fermentation medium. Within 2-3 weeks the maggot will grow large and ready to be harvested. Don't forget to leave the maggot so that it can be used as seeds to get the eggs back. In this way, it is not so difficult to start developing maggot cultivation.