Bulgarian biotech Nasekomo has completed Project 3B and commissioned a next-generation Multiplication Center designed to industrialize Black Soldier Fly (BSF) reproduction. The €3.5 million project received €2.5 million in grant funding under Bulgaria’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan, financed by the EU’s NextGenerationEU instrument.

The facility integrates pupation, adult emergence, mating, egg incubation and hatching, together with Nasekomo’s Neonate Suspension Technology, into a single continuous production system. Nasekomo says the site — one of Europe’s first highly automated BSF reproduction facilities — is engineered to hold tens of millions of adult flies at once. More than 80% of production operations are automated and an AI-powered machine vision system can count and analyse up to 7,000 neonates per second.

Nasekomo positions the Multiplication Center as a standardized, replicable module to supply high-quality neonate larvae to an international network of industrial insect production sites. For feed mill managers and plant engineers, the company says the platform reduces operational complexity, improves consistency and supports scalable production of larvae that convert organic side streams into proteins, lipids and fertiliser within 10–12 days.