“…Importance of quality ingredients and artificial feeds, even for herbivorous species such as tilapia, makes perfect sense at critical stages (juveniles or broodstock) when fish are maintained under intensive clear‐water farming conditions and depend entirely on nutritionally complete diets (Tacon, ). Global research for the identification of cost‐effective substitutes to conventional materials continues (Ayoola, ; El‐Sayed, ; El‐Sayed & Tacon, ; Hasan et al, ; Karalazos, ; Obirikorang et al., ). Insect meals such as fly larvae or maggots meals (MM) have been identified as high protein and valuable feed ingredient for livestock in general (van Huis et al., ; Makkar, Tran, Heuzé, & Ankers, ; Veldkamp et al., ) and freshwater fish specifically, given their natural feeding habits (Bailey & Harrison, ; Barroso et al., ; Henry, Gasco, Piccolo, & Fountoulaki, ; Odesanya, Ajayi, Agbaogun, & Okuneye, ; Randall, ).…”