fruit flies

[Vegas Chad]

here yall go... to answer your fruit fly questions.

http://www.expertvillage.com/interviews/culture-fruit-flies.htm

 

[Ren]

I am currently culturing 2 batches of fruit flies as we speak... muwhahaha my wife must really love me, crickets roaches worms flies lizards oh my!

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy

If you are culturing hydei FFs, you may want to have a dozen cups running in various stages of production. Spread-out the culture start dates. Back when I had a batch of babay panthers, I had over 30 cultures running at once, selling-off extra hydei cultures at the local reptile store or to friends. Be prepared for culture collapse or contamination...

 

[Ren]

I have 4 running.... 2 feeding and 2 with maggots at this stage... and some in the second container about to hatch...i don't think i will name them as they will not last very long hehe

 

[PardalisGirl]

fruit flies...

Yeah Ren you have a great wife there.....lizards are one thing, but the insect component that goes with them is what grosses a lot of people out. I have one drawer in the fridge that my husband knows not to open (has my butterworm supply in it) and one drawer in the freezer my husband never opens (has my supply of frozen mice for my monitors). I don't let guests rummage around in my kitchen much

 

[Ren]

people at work think im a freak, last night i bought some cheese cloth to replace the paper towels on my fly cultures and they were like whats this for...... My answer normally you don't wanna know. haha

 

[Electric]

I've always wondered about something... when you see fruit flies in your home around fruit(obviously), how are they actually getting there in the first place? Does a 'parent' fly first come and lay eggs on or around the fruit? or do the flies just somehow emerge from the fruit ?? I never really catched on

sorry if he explains this in the videos, I just didn't have time to watch them all and for some reason most of them are cutting out before the end

 

[Ren]

Well one thing i read on the internet when it was telling me of the home made media is that you need to wash the fruit before you use it to make your media because it can already have fruit fly eggs in it already... and if its a dif species or whatever they could be the flying type and you don't want that...

 

[PardalisGirl]

All I know is that before I started to culture fruit flies I never thought much about the fruit flies that were hanging around my banana bowl in the kitchen. Now that I have cultured the flightless kind and see the little larva things crawling around in the culture that later hatch into the fruit flies, I have to think that the same thing is happening in the ripened banana on the counter top. It has changed how long I let them sit out before I toss them. Icky!

 

[Orin]

I've always wondered about something... when you see fruit flies in your home around fruit(obviously), how are they actually getting there in the first place? Does a 'parent' fly first come and lay eggs on or around the fruit? or do the flies just somehow emerge from the fruit ?? I never really catched on

sorry if he explains this in the videos, I just didn't have time to watch them all and for some reason most of them are cutting out before the end

The flies you see come from outside generally, which is why you don't see them in the winter. Once you see flies there are already eggs on the damaged part of the fruit.