fruit fliy contamination

[Ren]

I bought from petsmart , some fruitflies. After buying 2 containers I made my own cultures and fed one of the petsmart containers off and used the other to build my own setups with... All went well, produced a lot of flies and was easy to do and ingredients were easily obtainable and had many flies for the little ones. So since then my new cultures produced and been feeding them off and in turn made 3 more again.... now this time I have flying flies in the culture.... is it possible the fruit i used in my concoction had fly eggs in it? I don't want to release a million flies into the house and now i am thinking i will loose my cultures due to having to throw them out... I will try and feed them off the chams wouldn't care if they are flying lol just kinda wonder how this happens?

 

[Greenhorn]

I read one place that when you make your own media and use fruit, their can be eggs in the fruit and they suggest that you microwave it to kill them

 

[PardalisGirl]

fruit fly contamination

I think eggs can be in the fruit Ren.....Also, fruit flies are sneaky little things. I get fruit flies in my live cricket containers. They like the orange quarters I give the crickets. I sometimes vacumn them up with a hand vac when I feed out crickets. It's funny though because some of them are flyers (from bananas on my kitchen counter) and some are flightless (escapees from my own cultures). Both types find their way to my cricket container which is no where near either source. It would be fun to watch baby chams eat the flyers

 

[Vegas Chad]

How do fly eggs happen? Well... When a girl fly and a boy fly love one another very much they... Wellllllllllllll, you know the rest..

 

[Dave Weldon]

Howdy,

I've made dozens of cups and didn't see any fliers but I did read that besides contamination with wild FFs, there is a temperature relationship that can "unparalyze" the normanlly non-fliers. I think cultures that are raised in a cooler temp can become fliers. I haven't seen this myself.

Some FF info sites:

http://www.dendroboard.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=13
http://www.doylesdartden.com/fruitfly.html
http://www.fruitflies.net/info.htm
http://www.expertvillage.com/interviews/culture-fruit-flies.htm (Video site recently posted by another person on this site )