Insectare

Insect farming startups were flying high last month as the EU gave the regulatory go-ahead for insects to be used as food for pigs and poultry, unlocking a huge potential market in animal feed. Many expect UK regulators, which permit insects only as pet and fish feed, to follow suit.

The timing is good for Entocycle, Britain’s biggest startup in the sector. It recently converted its London research lab into its first commercial site to start producing grub for the pet industry. It is raising a £22m Series A, of which £5.2m is already secured. And early next year, it will start building a large-scale farm in Scotland to sell insects to industrial animal feed producers in large quantities.

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Entocycle's insect farm is proof that flies can be bug business London-based insect farming startup Entocycle wants to be first out of the gate when Britain allows insects to be used as animal feed

The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) isn’t particularly glamorous, sometimes described as wasp-like without the sting. But whole factories are being built around the insect to produce a protein-rich feed additive for farm-raised animals and fish.

The latest one, the world’s biggest, will rise in central Illinois adjacent to Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.’s corn-processing complex in Decatur. The owner/operator will be InnovaFeed, a French biotech company that already has two factories devoted to black soldier flies and projects 10 others by 2030.

The Illinois plant will be Innova’s first venture outside France. There, it will grow and harvest black soldier fly larvae to produce dry feed additive, oil additive, and frass, or fly waste, used as a soil fertilizer.

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Kennedy: Agribusiness and black soldier fly larvae The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) isn’t particularly glamorous, sometimes described as wasp-like without the sting. But whole factories are being built around the insect to produce a protein…