Insect Production Worker

Duties

The duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Prepares and weighs out different rearing media and diet ingredients.
• Operates and/or synchronizes multiple pieces of equipment for preparation of insect diets.
• Assembles and disassembles production chambers.
• Cleans the chambers and the surrounding of the dispersal facility.
• Provides feed to insects, controls temperature and humidity, and harvests pupae or adults, records collection data, and verifies that the data is correct.
• Separates insects into categories such as sex and/or species and controls them to prevent escape or intermingling.
• Observes insect collections for obvious changes of life cycles, deaths, and general activity, and reports observations to the supervisor.
• Determines daily production of adults and pupae by determining the average weight and inputting that data into facility database.
• Prepares disinfectant, for cleaning and sanitation of equipment for rearing of various insect life stages and disinfects based on established protocols.