Using insects for sustainable waste management of superabundant animals
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Management of fecal waste from superabundant wildlife in urban areas is a key environmental and public health concern, yet even in developed countries, sustainable solutions that implement circular economy principles are still lacking. We tested the potential of black soldier fly (BSF) larvae for valorizing organic waste of the widespread Canada goose: converting droppings into larval protein while yielding frass fertilizer. Larvae were able to survive, develop, and degrade the goose feces. For instance, larvae degraded 56% of goose feces compared to 63% of a control diet. Sterilization of feces reduced the performance of larvae. We tested the fertilization properties of the insect frass on an aquatic plant (duckweed) and we found growth enhancement of 32% at 10 g·L -1 compared to a standard Hoagland’s media. Our results provide insights into how to sustainably manage urban fecal waste from overabundant species while producing protein and a nutrient-rich fertilizer for plants.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it