[SHamer1987]

I have successfully kept them and raised them through the warmer months here in Weatern NC. I started my colony by ordering some from a commercial farm and raised them indoors while till they started turning from white/tan to grey. The reason I kept them inside is to keep other insects like common house flies from laying eggs in the bin. Once they’re turning grey I put them outside in the tub I made with the ramp in it, I actually had two ramps in my enclosure, one that went into the chicken coop for treats and the other into a bin with compost and leaf matter in it where some of them can complete the life cycle, turn into flies and return to the bin, breed, lay eggs and star the life cycle over. The most important part of attracting them year to year is to catch the compost tea that drains out of the bin at the end of the year and freeze it over the winter, once we are past the last frost, around Mother’s Day, I prepare a bin with food scrap and dump that tea over the scrap, it contains the pheromone that will attract in the wild soldier flies to lay their eggs in the bin. I use rolls of corrugated cardboard that I hang above the food scrap. I also keep a huge colony of mealworms and dubia roaches that I breed indoors and can produce live feed over the winter. In the summer I buy minimal feed since I’m feeding my birds with all the insects I raise and I have a separate garden that I grow squash, zucchini, pumpkin, cucumbers and a variety of leafy plants that I use as feed,

[SHamer1987]

I suffered from migraines for years and I tried everything my doctor told me to do without any luck. About two years ago I changed my diet and I haven’t had one migraine since. I don’t eat any sugar, even sucrose from fruit(berries and grapefruit only). Zero carbohydrates for the most part, after 1.5 years I started eating potatos and yams again. Healthy fats, avocados, nuts, grass fed meats. And a ton of vegetables. No only have got rid of my migraines, my visions has improved, I lost 55 pounds, I have a ton of energy.