Black soldier flies don't fly around as much as houseflies.

Butterflies, Leafhoppers, Spiders and Soldier Flies are particularly well represented.

Many small-scale grub farmers build their larvae colonies from eggs deposited by "wild" soldier flies (which they may have released).

Xylomyidae or wood soldier flies is a family of Diptera associated with dead or dying wood (xylophagous).

Superficially they resemble horse flies, but are only distantly related; they are most closely related to the soldier flies (Stratiomyidae).

Worms can be added if the larvae population gets low (in the cold season) and worms can be raised in grub bins while awaiting eggs from wild black soldier flies.

In English , the Stratiomidi are commonly called soldier flies ("soldier flies"), in German waffenfliegen ("armed flies").

The original name chosen by Yoshiyasu, Melanochroa, had to be changed because it properly refers to a genus of soldier flies (family Stratiomyidae, subfamily Stratiomyinae, tribe Prosopochrysini) described in 1886 already.

In some regions it is possible to start or maintain adequate larvae colonies from native soldier flies; however, pest species such as houseflies and blowflies are also drawn to many of the foods used to attract soldier flies (such as fermented chicken feed).

Oxycerini is a tribe of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.

Hermetia is a genus of fly of the family Stratiomyidae.

The larvae of Stratiomyidae are characterized by a wide variety of behaviours and habitats.

Ptecticus is an Old World genus of flies in the family Stratiomyidae.

Family Stratiomyidae.

The soldier flies (Stratiomyidae, sometimes misspelled as Stratiomyiidae.

Chloromyia formosa is a species of 'Soldier Flies' belonging to the family Stratiomyidae.

Australian sod fly introduced into California (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).

The brachyceran infraorder Stratiomyomorpha is a small group that consists primarily of the family Stratiomyidae and two small related families.

Unlike other dipterous scavengers, adults of Stratiomyidae not have relationships with the growth substrate of the larvae, except for oviposition.

A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Insecta: Diptera).

The genera of Beridinae (Diptera: Stratiomyidae).

Clitellaria ephippium is a species of 'Soldier Fly' (so named for the thorns that armor the body) belonging to the family Stratiomyidae.

Family Stratiomyidae at EOL Images.

Significant families are Chironomidae (very significant), Stratiomyidae, Ephydridae, Dixidae and Tipulidae.

The black soldier fly, or Hermetia illucens is a common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae, whose larvae are common detritivores in compost heaps.

Eulalia is synonym for the genus Odontomyia, in the family Soldier flies Stratiomyidae), of order Diptera, suborder Brachycera.

George Henry Verrall Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera Brachycera of Great Britain - British flies published.

The Stratiomyidae are closely related to the family of Xylomyidae with which the share 10 synapomorphies and they form a monophyletic clade with the family of Pantophthalmidae with which they 5 synapomorphies.

Dusek J. and Rozkosny R. 1963-1967 Revision mitteleuropäischer Arten der Familie Stratiomyidae (Diptera) mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Fauna der CSSR.

Other flower feeding Brachycerous families are Empididae, Stratiomyidae and the Acroceridae like various members of the Nemestrinidae, Bombyliidae and Tabanidae are nectar feeders with exceptionally long proboscises, sometimes longer than the entire bodily length of the insect.

It is a sequel to an earlier volume, British Hoverflies: an identification guide, and covers the following families of flies, which collectively are known as the "Larger Brachycera": Acroceridae, Asilidae, Athericidae, Bombyliidae, Rhagionidae, Scenopinidae, Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Therevidae, Xylomyidae and Xylophagidae.