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Is it safe to compost? Or does it have too much wax left?
Kathy Cox

From my personal experience, it is both safe to compost and composts very easily.  I keep a plastic
trash can inverted with the bottom cut out and a lid over the bottom in which to put my vegetable
compost.  Soldier flies oviposit in this and the soldier fly larvae take down my vegetable  refuse in
very short order when the weather is warm and they are active.  I place the container next to
whatever tree or shrub I wish to "feed" with the organic waste compost (this would be called "cold
composting" by some) and the nutrients leach into the soil under the container.  When I put slum
gum (leftovers from my solar wax melter) into it, the soldier fly larvae quickly cover it and eat it and it
disappears with the rest of the material, wax and all.  They love it.

Layne Westover
College Station, Texas, Les Etats Unis de l'Amerique

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