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BSF alternative for colder climate?

 
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Is there any organism, not tropical, that is not a carrier of disease and able to process any type of food waste as BSF do? Maybe some kind of cockroach?

I am in hardiness zone 10, very close to the sea, in southern Italy, temperatures rarely drop below 4 degrees in winter.

I would like to find an effective system to dispose of all types of food waste, including spoiled meat and dairy products. Hermetia Illucens looks perfect and I find what she manages to do really impressive, but I could only use it in the summer and it is a big limit.

I would also be willing to use blatticomposting, although I have a certain phobia towards cockroaches. If I could find an animal that can do what BSF does, but more resistant to the cold, it would be fantastic to use it as a stool producer to feed red worms and simultaneously recycle waste.
 
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Try this out:  

I did it in Berlin (much colder than south Italy) and it worked very nice.
If you adapted it to BSF needs (harvesting ramp, rearing chamber, etc.), please share with me.
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Ricardo Beck
 
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I'm vermicomposting in an old fridge set on its side.
I don't expect it to need any heat in the winter,  or a light bulb at most.
Maybe try BSF in such a vessel.
 
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