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Subject: Re: Bug Survey
Posted by Justin Yeager on July 20, 1998 at 07:25:20:

In Reply to: Bug Survey posted by Betsycc on July 19, 1998 at 22:48:27:

: Hey guys on 7-11 I posted a question to you all about the NEW and improved flightless Fruit flies. With a link for you to go read about them. My vet says they are meater and better for gliders than meal worms. I cannot get myself to even consider giant fruit flies in my house!

Hi,
For years now I've used wingless fruit flies for food for my poison dart frogs. They come in many sizes, but there are two common ones. Drosophila (sp) melanogaster (a smaller fly with no wing), and D. hydei (a fly 3 times their size with no wing muscles to fly). If anyone lives near Ephrata PA I'd be glad to help hook you up with a culture, otherwise you can buy them from Carolina Biological Supply Catalog (a science teacher at a local high school will have a copy). Now when you said that the fruit flies were meatier than mealworms that is true to their relative size you have to remember that ff's are VERY small compared to crickets or mealworms sold at pet stores! It will take many many flies to feed even a pair of Sugar Gliders. There is also now a wingless house fly that would be more convenient to use for feeding, but their cultureing is more difficult than even the fruit flies.
E mail me for culturing info if you want it...
Good luck,
Justin Yeager
yeager2@ptd.net

Follow Ups:

• Re: Bug Survey Betsycc 10:05:21 7/20/98 (0)
• Re: Bug Survey Betsycc 10:05:05 7/20/98 (7)
  • Re: Bug Survey Justin Yeager 11:44:45 7/20/98 (6)
    • Re: Bug Survey Betsycc 15:52:21 7/20/98 (5)
      • Re: Bug Survey Justin Yeager 16:03:43 7/20/98 (4)
        • Re: Confused Flour Beetle picture Betsycc 00:44:48 7/21/98 (0)
        • Re:Confused Flour Beetles Betsycc 00:39:00 7/21/98 (2)
          • Re:Confused Flour Beetles Justin Yeager 17:13:01 7/21/98 (0)
          • Re:Confused Flour Beetles Justin Yeager 16:09:20 7/21/98 (0)