Assessing Fungal and Bacterial Microbiome Diversity in The Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens L.) Gut and Its Different Feeding Media

Now is the time to turn waste from a source of environmental pollution into a treasure of abundance throughout the world, these concerns are even more important when alternative feed ingredients, new product developments and innovative feeding trends, like insect-meals, are considered. The black soldier fly is the key to our food secure future, mainly as an alternative protein source. The research on transfer of contaminants from different substrates to the insects, as well as the possible occurrence of toxin-producing fungi and contaminated bacteria in the gut of non-processed insects are very limited. Accordingly, we investigated the impact of the substrate/diet on the intestinal microbiota of H. illucens larvae. The results were Impressive to make us sure that this incredible insect lead us for the way of our food secure. We had found many fungai which can decay harmful bacteria and toxin-producing fungi as Ascomycete fungi and Pichia fungi. Moreover, many species bacteria, and fungi for the first time they were isolated from the larvae of the black soldier fly for example, the bacterium Ignatzschineria larvae, species of fungi Pichia sporocuriosa, Pichia cecembensis, and Candida thaimueongensis have not been isolated from the intestines of the larvae before. So, in this paper you will find the answers of the most two important questions: first, Do the feeding food that the larvae fed on affect the micro biotic community within the larval intestines?