Projektsuche

ReproFly - Fully automated breeding of black soldier flies

Authority

Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Lower Saxony and Hamburg

Contact

Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

ReproFly - Fully automated breeding of black soldier flies

Project description

A promising approach to the sustainable use of biological waste materials is the use of black soldier flies. In recent years, industrial units for fattening fly larvae on farms have therefore been developed. Until now, however, farmers have had to purchase the larvae from specialized producers. Long delivery routes can result in high losses of larvae. Fluctuating numbers of young larvae make it difficult to scale up biomass production. The project is using camera recordings and machine learning approaches to develop an automatic sex separation system for female and male soldier flies. The process is intended to enable the targeted adjustment of gender ratios in the cages, thus contributing to consistently good breeding results. The ReproFly concept aims to enable farmers to produce the required quantity of young larvae for their own farms with little effort. The system has a high degree of automation and is scalable.

Final report

Results and the Final report will be found here, as soon as the project is completed.

Keywords

Circular economy, incl. waste, by-products and residues

Main funding source

Rural development 2023-2027 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 127 of Reg. 2021/2115)

OG contact information

DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e.V.
Prof.-v.-Klitzing-Str. 7
49610 Quakenbrück

Phone: 05431-183 323

Email: j.schroeder@dil-ev.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Researcher
  • Industry

Begin of project

2025

Project status

ongoing

Total budget applied for in EUR

401,852

NUTS3 CODE

94E

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