![]() ![]() They are a fantastically nutritious live food, consisting of *20% pure protein and *12% fat, both of which are difficult to grow for chickens from plants. The eggs hatch out into larvae, or meal worms, at which point they become the most interesting to us.(My eyesight must be failing as I’ve never actually seen an egg, and as the macro function on my camera is broken, I had little hope of snapping one either.) They become sexually mature after a week or so, mate and lay eggs which are apparently the size of this full stop. They are white like this for a few hours before turning brown, then black. In the first picture is a freshly hatched Darkling beetle.They are all sat in the bowl of a teaspoon to give you an idea of their size. In a next step, the company is expected to register a patent before also making these available on the market, as Christoph Bertschi, Co-Founder and CEO of SmartBreed, explained to the platform.This is 3 of the 4 stages a mealworm ( Tenebrio molitor) goes through. The breeding boxes for grasshoppers are currently being tested in collaboration with zoos. ![]() One type is designed for private individuals, the other for companies.Īccording to the startupticker.ch article, SmartBreed has now launched the first breeding boxes for mealworms on the market. The start-up is developing two types of breeding boxes for these insects. The boxes offer continuous self-cleaning and feed control functions.įor its breeding boxes, SmartBreed is focusing of mealworms, grasshoppers and locusts. These are designed to minimize the time a person needs to spend on breeding insects. It is developing stackable, fully automated breeding boxes. The start-up SmartBreed from Zufikon in the canton of Aargau has set itself the target of simplifying insect breeding. However, the costs involved in breeding insects must be reduced yet further for these kind of food products to prevail, an article by startupticker.ch states. Europe is now also seeing ever more insects on supermarket shelves. In addition, the do not need much in the way of water and produce zero CO2 emissions, unlike cattle, for example. The animals require hardly any space, are undemanding to rear and reproduce particularly quickly. Insect breeding offers several benefits over meat production. ![]()
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