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These hungry maggots are creating highly lucrative biomaterial

an Insectta worker harvests eggs of the black soldier flies by gently scraping them off pieces of wood in Singapore

Black soldier fly larvae munch their way through hundreds of kilograms of food waste a day. Image: REUTERS/Caroline Chia

Lee Ying Shan
Reporter, Reuters
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Insectta extract chitosan, melanin and probiotics from the larvae. Image: REUTERS/Caroline Chia
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