Your trusted partner for successful insect farming
Who benefits from our technology and services?
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Farmers and Producers
Our insect farms offer diversification into new and rapidly growing markets, helping to secure a sustainable future for your farm business.
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Insect Companies
We provide an end-to-end solution for commercial insect farming or can offer stand-alone technology, equipment and support to enhance your existing operations.
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Waste Management
We deliver end-to-end insect bioconversion solutions for waste management companies, enabling them to convert food waste into low-carbon, high-value products.
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Entrepreneurs
We deliver end-to-end insect farming solutions for entrepreneurs looking to enter the fast-growing insect industry, covering everything from site permits to off-take.
What we do
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End-to-end insect farm solution
Our insect farm solution turns food waste and byproducts into high-value, low-carbon products for animal and plant nutrition.
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Insect technology
Our proven technology and equipment deliver precision and reliability throughout the black soldier fly larvae production process.
Customer Spotlight
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“We recently trialled Entocycle’s optical dosing solution, Entosight Neo, and the results demonstrated a substantial improvement in dosing accuracy. They’re also a great team to work with, not only due to their technical expertise, but their willingness to consider our unique needs and operations.”
Liz Koutsos, President of EnviroFlight
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“Entocycle has a team of experts who are always a pleasure to work with. They are specialists in breeding systems and have developed cutting-edge technology to improve the reliability and efficiency of this process.”
Tim Egan, New Technology, Regen Organics
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“A big thank you to the entire team for delivering such an amazing piece of kit. The flexibility of systems and adjustability of various aspects are just brilliant, and the unit has a super-easy user interface. Pure genius!”
Dr. Gesa Reiss, SMART Agri-Systems Senior Innovation Fellow, University of Leeds
The Colony
Our team of industry experts work hand-in-hand with you to find the right solution for your business.
Our mission-led company consists of talented and experienced individuals from the fields of entomology, engineering, automation, and the animal feed and pet food markets. These skill sets combined ensure we can cover all aspects of planning and delivering a successful insect project for our customers.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Black soldier fly are considered by many to be nature’s apex recycler – a tiny yet robust insect perfectly designed to rapidly turn any organic waste into valuable protein. For this reason, the black soldier fly is currently the most widely farmed insect species worldwide.
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Entocycle offers end-to-end insect farming solutions and services to farmers, food producers, waste management companies, entrepreneurs, and insect companies.
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The life cycle of the black soldier fly consists of four main stages: egg, larvae, pupae, and adult fly. The larval growth stage is where the majority of biomass conversion takes place, with larvae feeding voraciously and swiftly gaining weight. BSFL will gain approximately 5,000 times its body weight during this phase.
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Permitted feedstocks for insect bioconversion will depend on your country or jurisdiction’s regulations. In the UK and European Union, insects are considered ‘farmed animals’ – which means that the feedstuff used in insect farming has to follow the safety standards applied to other farmed animals, such as chickens or pigs. Therefore, the substrate for feeding insects intended for processing into PAP (processed animal protein) may only contain products of non-animal origin (permitted examples include brewers’ grains, dairy by-products or vegetable by-products) with a few exceptions.
Interested in our insect technology and services?
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