I think I can safely characterize this year's warmest months as "The Summer of Compost." We got the quail and rabbits in late spring and leveraged their copious waste product to introduce BSF to the area.

The BSF were mail ordered and arrived pretty mature. They went in under the rabbit hutch and started pupating in a week or so, which slowed down the composting. I thought they were done, but then started seeing the flies around. Soon they had taken over my worm bins and quail composter as well. While my fish and quail both love to eat worms, the worms just do not reproduce quickly enough to make it part of the daily diet. The BSF can easily keep everybody fed, enough to get off commercial feed. At least during the summer.





As noted in the second video, I am planning to replace the BSF under my rabbits with red worms, which have currently died out.