Black Soldier Fly protein markets, feed ingredients, processing, scale-up economics, and industry developments.
Europe has opened markets for insect protein, but not the waste streams that would make BSF production structurally cheaper. The next regulatory fight is substrate access, not another generic circular-economy slogan.
A 2026 Cleaner Food Systems paper shows zinc, manganese, copper and selenium can be steered into BSFL biomass, with brewery spent grains outperforming conventional feed for targeted zinc and manganese accumulation.
A new Food Microbiology paper reports that Bacillus cereus persisted through Hermetia illucens rearing, with larvae and frass requiring post-rearing treatment even when authorized substrates were used.
Innovafeed’s latest financing says more about consolidation than expansion: Nesle becomes the operational center, Hilucia moves into commercial focus, and Gouzeaucourt is being folded into the main site.
A look behind recent bankruptcies and restructurings in the Black Soldier Fly sector—what went wrong, what’s still promising, and how industry players can move forward.
An in-depth look at the judicial liquidation of Ÿnsect: what led to it, what failed, and what BSF farming can learn.