IN a quiet, mainly residential district of Singapore, trays of writhing black soldier fly larvae munch their way through hundreds of kilograms of food waste a day.
The protein-rich maggots can be sold for pet food or fertiliser, but at Insectta – a start-up that says it is Singapore’s first urban insect farm – they are bred to extract biomaterials that can be used in pharmaceuticals and electronics.
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