What is in this compost??? Wat r these bugs??

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Sep 17, 2012 | 03:43 PM

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What is in this compost??? Wat r these bugs??

My friend made a compost pile and these appeared in it.

Identify please.

Sep 17, 2012 | 03:49 PM

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Soldier fly larvae... Google it.

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:02 PM

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does your friend put cooked food and/or meat in his/her compost?

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:04 PM

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does your friend put cooked food and/or meat in his/her compost?

yes?

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:08 PM

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y8's, apparently these aren't like your normal maggots and can live off any wet compost pile.

Big maggots in your compost? They're soldier fly larvae | Oregon State University Extension Service | Gardening

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:10 PM

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yes?

Wait, really? That's ******' disgusting, you should never put meat in a compost pile.

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:19 PM

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I chrcked and no. No meat.

These soldier flies are very interesting. The hemp of the bug world. I can eat them too.

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:22 PM

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You're going to eat bugs out of a shitpile?

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:35 PM

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Soldier flys are great. I know people that give them to other fellow composters to seed there own compost pile. They do not stay long unless you have some food scraps in the pile.

I tried them in my mostly yard waste pile, and they never took hold.

Sep 17, 2012 | 04:53 PM

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interesting.

our "**** heap" is like 4 years old and has never had them. of course we are the laziest composters in the wide world of sports but that's another issue.

good compost: half the **** we throw in it keeps growing.

Sep 17, 2012 | 06:01 PM

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I chrcked and no. No meat.

These soldier flies are very interesting. The hemp of the bug world. I can eat them too.

Haha, good. Yeah sounds alright then. They are kind of gnarly looking, but really interesting if you read about them. Basically harmless and help the compost process.

The question is, can you make ethanol out of them like hemp

Sep 17, 2012 | 06:42 PM

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No. But you could feed the hemp waste product to them and they would turn the uh waste into protein. Delicious soldier fly larvae protein.

Sep 20, 2012 | 06:35 PM

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Lets keep this going. Can anyone identify these. Each has a baby on its back.

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Sep 20, 2012 | 06:58 PM

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looks like they are mating

Sep 20, 2012 | 07:18 PM

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I killed one of those in Gainesville earlier this summer. It was like four inches long!

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Sep 20, 2012 | 07:31 PM

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They are pretty long, and very soft.

Sep 20, 2012 | 07:35 PM

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are they mushrooms?

Sep 20, 2012 | 07:42 PM

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They are pretty long, and very soft.

yeah bro it's the same **** kill them all

Sep 20, 2012 | 07:44 PM

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yeah bro it's the same **** kill them all

They havent done anything to me.

Sep 20, 2012 | 07:55 PM

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Anisomorpha buprestoides (Southern Two-striped Walking Stick)

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This species is noted for its ability to shoot a toxic spray in self-defense. It aims for the eyes and sports an accuracy of upwards to 30-40 cm (~12-15 inches). The spray, if it makes contact with the eyes, causes intense burning and pain. It’s also intended solely for self defense (the species consumes tree and bush leaves, not animals).

Sounds like a good reason to kill it to me.

http://dusttracks.com/2012/08/07/ani...4-august-2012/

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