Professional Photos

Here are some professional photos of the three life stages of BSF. I'd like to give major props to Duncan, who helped me greatly in the Learning Centre.

This is the larval or "maggot" stage. Notice the lighter, beige colour and large size of the life stage.

The pupa is the nonmoving stage of the BSF life cycle. Pupa are a dark brown colour and are significantly smaller than larvae.

And lastly, the adult. Here, you can see the wings are not fully developed, which is perhaps due to the low humidity of the insect room, where our BSF are kept. BSF occur natural in tropical environments such as the South (US), which is generally quite humid and hot. Once we are able to have more adults emerge, we will take them to our set-up at UBC Farm, where they will hopefully be happier and fully develop (and more importantly, mate!). But more on this set-up later.