System for the production of whole insects, in particular for animal feed, comprising a plurality of insect production micro-stations, each production micro-station being designed to independently carry out a larva growth phase and comprising a local rearing module with a plurality of stackable rearing trays and a robotised processing island adapted to collect from the rearing trays, on the one hand organic material for use as local fertilizer and on the other hand insects that have reached a pre-defined minimum size for transformation into finished or semi-finished products; characterised: - in that the production system further comprises a single central transformation station for finished or semi-finished products based on insects alone or insects combined with other ingredients, said single central transformation station being located on a site remote from the micro-stations and in functional relation with the latter, and comprising: a) a reception module for chilled insects from the micro-stations, providing a maintained cold chain previously initiated in the original insect micro-stations; b) a transformation module for batches of chilled insects as finished or semi-finished products; c) a rearing module for reproducers; - in that each of the micro-stations comprises a chilling module designed to cool the insects before dispatch to the single central transformation station; - in that the single central station site together with each of the micro-station sites are located at a safety distance from each other of at least 2 km and more preferentially 5 km; - and in that the micro-stations are linked to the single central transformation station on the one hand by a supply chain for batches of reproducers and/or eggs designed to convey batches of reproducers and/or eggs from the transformation station to at least a part of the micro-stations, and on the other hand by a cold chain designed to convey the chilled insects from the micro-stations to the central transformation station. - in that the production system further comprises a single central transformation station for finished or semi-finished products based on insects alone or insects combined with other ingredients, said single central transformation station being located on a site remote from the micro-stations and in functional relation with the latter, and comprising: a) a reception module for chilled insects from the micro-stations, providing a maintained cold chain previously initiated in the original insect micro-stations; b) a transformation module for batches of chilled insects as finished or semi-finished products; c) a rearing module for reproducers; a) a reception module for chilled insects from the micro-stations, providing a maintained cold chain previously initiated in the original insect micro-stations; b) a transformation module for batches of chilled insects as finished or semi-finished products; c) a rearing module for reproducers; - in that each of the micro-stations comprises a chilling module designed to cool the insects before dispatch to the single central transformation station; - in that the single central station site together with each of the micro-station sites are located at a safety distance from each other of at least 2 km and more preferentially 5 km; - and in that the micro-stations are linked to the single central transformation station on the one hand by a supply chain for batches of reproducers and/or eggs designed to convey batches of reproducers and/or eggs from the transformation station to at least a part of the micro-stations, and on the other hand by a cold chain designed to convey the chilled insects from the micro-stations to the central transformation station.