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the solider flies eat, they lay the larvae inside of their food and then all they do is – that’s why <br />they’re called Soldier Flies, yeah? They fly around and they kill flies, they kill anything in the <br />vicinity that would eat the babies and then we put up this trap thing and we used it for chicken <br />feed and to feed the ducks and we’d mix that with the duck weed from the pond – that floating <br />algae of the pond and that was like a real healthy food for all the animals that we farmed. So <br />this is a kinda interesting idea but on a large scale I don’t know if it can handle, like tens or <br />twenty pigs at a time is a lot. <br /> <br />SW: When you’re talking about this are you talking about a closed system – like it would happen <br />within an enclosed container? <br /> <br />AK: There’s, these specialized tubs – ‘cause I was mentioning we would need to procure in order to <br />do this project. I don’t know if it’s an enclosed system. <br /> <br />SW: I’m just asking because he was talking about how the feature of the Black Soldier Fly is to… <br /> <br />LT: Fly around and protect… <br /> <br />SW: Yeah, fly around and protect and basically get rid of other things that might be in the <br />environment so that’s why I was asking. <br /> <br />LT: Yeah, the way we did it was set it up inside of a – you know, like we’d cut a big tube in half and <br />made a grow bed with a cover and we’d put food and go back and forth and the Soldier Flies the <br />larvae would just eat whatever we put in, you know, trees, branches, food, cardboard mostly – <br />they love newspaper – and then we’d have to work ‘em inside and then larvae would climb out <br />of this tube in to a bucket and so it has to be a closed system, um, because if it’s exposed to the <br />wild, you know, more the wild animals are gonna come in and disrupt the plan, so… <br /> <br />SW: Chair, Cortney has a… <br /> <br />LT: Ah, yes, Miss Cortney Okumura… <br /> <br />CO: I just watched a demonstration on a smaller scale of this last week and, just adding to this <br />benefits of their – apparently, they can’t carry diseases because of their lack of a mouth like you <br />were saying so that makes them another benefit is that they can’t carry disease between waste <br />and foods and makes them safe as a feed for animals and they’re very rich in protein and fat, <br />yeah, it was an excellent presentation and it looks like a really great solution for making a <br />sustainable food source for animals on our Island and a safe one at that, so, yeah, cool, carry on. <br />I’m very interested. <br /> <br />LT: Mahalo. <br /> <br />BL: Brian, District – 4. Is there any way we can expand this statewide like the County drop offs – I <br />know a lot of – mainland we have tallow companies – that we’d have the same thing where we <br />have a place where people can take these animal carcasses and dump ‘em so they’re not <br />dumping them in people’s yards and creating issues that – I know in Puna it’s a big problem that <br />the hunters will just take the choice cuts of meat and just dump the body in some residential <br />area cause of the… <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />