The Black Soldier Fly (BSF, Hermetia illucens) was widely distributed throughout Korea. This insect was mainly found in the vicinity of and in cattle sheds, manure sheds, living waste dump grounds, and food waste dump grounds. This fly is a kind of a beneficial fly because BSF adults do not go into houses, they do not regurgitate on human food, they do not bite, bother or pester humans in any way and they are not associated in any way with the transmission of disease. But their greatest attribute lies their ability to eat and digest raw waste. They can devour, for example, a large, raw, Irish potato and others in just a few hours. Unlike many other flies, since the BSF larvae have very powerful mouth parts and digestive enzymes, they can ingest raw waste far more efficiently than any other known species of fly. On this study, to investigate whether feeding strategy of the BSF larvae involves extra-oral digestion or not, and to better understand this process, the salivary glands and a few tissue from the BSF were dissected and subjected to morphological and preliminary enzyme characterization.

• Won Tae Kim(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University)
• Sung Woo Bae(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Ji Young Choi(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Jong Gill Kim(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Young Cheol Choi(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Kwan Ho Park(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Gil Sang Jeong(National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration)
• Young Ho Koh(Ilsong Institute of Life Science, Hallym University)