Dr. Patrick Klüber is currently working on strategies for the use of plant-based industrial side streams as feed sources of the black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens. Hereby, he analyzes the life-history traits of immature and adult life stages. As microorganisms, especially bacteria and fungi, are known to play a crucial role in dietary breakdown and thus affect the broad substrate spectrum of BSF larvae, he uses culture-dependent and independent approaches to characterize their microbiome. In addition, he is highly interested in putative entomopathogens and their role in commercial insect rearing.