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Subject: Re: Bug Survey
Posted by Betsycc on July 20, 1998 at 10:05:21:

In Reply to: Re: Bug Survey posted by Justin Yeager on July 20, 1998 at 07:25:20:

: 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
Justin,
Thanks for responding. If we used flightless flies, whether they be fruit flies or house flies, wouldn't they still be able to crawl, fast? Wouldn't they lay eggs in our cages? Don't the eggs hatch into maggots?
This is not a scenerio that thrills me. Yuk.
Isn't there any other type of bug that we can feed our gliders that is not as fattening as a meal worm and not as sure to escape as a fly?

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