“…In recent years, mass rearing of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens L., Diptera: Stratiomyidae) larvae (BSFL) has emerged as an additional solution for food waste recycling (Gold et al, 2018;Zurbrügg et al, 2018;Berggren et al, 2019;Varelas, 2019). BSFL convert a range of organic wastes (e.g., food waste, animal manure) and food-and agro-industry side products (e.g., breweries, food processing industry) (Nyakeri et al, 2017;Barragán-Fonseca et al, 2018;Lalander et al, 2019;Gold et al, 2020a) into larval biomass and a compost-like residue (i.e., mixture of frass and substrate). The larval biomass is rich in proteins and lipids, and thus, serves as a raw material for various applications within the food system, such as proteins and lipids in feeds for pets (Bosch et al, 2014) and livestock (e.g., fish, poultry, swine) ( Barragán-Fonseca et al, 2017;Wang and Shelomi, 2017), and processing of the larval exoskeleton into chitosan (Hahn et al, 2019).…”