reptileman
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Hey guys I had a few questions on fruit fly cultures. First off are D. Hydei fruit flys flightless? second does anyone know a larger fly thats easy to culture thats flightless? Thanks for the help in advance
Fruit flys
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ColorCham427
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Tell us about these Terflies, google isn't being so nice! 
Whether the fruit flies are flightless or not, you will eventually get some flies that will end up taking flight. Life does and will find a way
I've kept a generation for pretty long, and I ended up with multiple cultures that had atleast 100 hydei flies that flew out and peaced out lol.
Wingless would be your best bet if you don't want any that could get their wings going again...
Whether the fruit flies are flightless or not, you will eventually get some flies that will end up taking flight. Life does and will find a way
I've kept a generation for pretty long, and I ended up with multiple cultures that had atleast 100 hydei flies that flew out and peaced out lol.
Wingless would be your best bet if you don't want any that could get their wings going again...
Tell us about these Terflies, google isn't being so nice!
What happens to aunt googles?
Do you have fear of it?
Does it bite?
Whether the fruit flies are flightless or not, you will eventually get some flies that will end up taking flight. Life does and will find a way
I've kept a generation for pretty long, and I ended up with multiple cultures that had atleast 100 hydei flies that flew out and peaced out lol.
Wingless would be your best bet if you don't want any that could get their wings going again...
Now, let us see.
The problem with the wingless/flight-unable fruit flies, which to a few generations again fly, is the following:
You have your cultures somewhere in the shelf or on the Terrarium.
Wild ones, airworthy will fruit-fly by the smell of the growth medium attracted and put their eggs on the cover of your breeding container.
As soon as the tiny larvae slip, they find their way in the container, and already are the first airworthy animals there.
Places your cultures completely simply into a cabinet, whose door is covered with flying gauze.
" Wild Flys " come not more directly to your breeding containers, and away for the larvae too far, it will die…
Terflys/Krullflys ( Musca domestica )
A variant, whose wing is upward curved, so normal flight does not concern any longer .
Short, aimless flights are however quite possible.
Here now the cultural guidance of a friend of me.
I did not try it out yet, since the breed " nevertheless quite somewhat; smells "
Added:
200 flies
1 yogurt glass (180 g/approx. 2 DL)
3 plastic cup A 5 DL
, cover (old nylon socks)
dryed yeast
Wheat bran
Skimmed milk powder
Breeding container of approx. 5 litres
5 days after slipping are old the flies enough (sex-ripely, paired) for the far breed.
Beginning for oviposition (for approx. 200 flies):
4 soup spoons water
0,25 coffee spoons dryed yeast
everything dissolve, add then 1,5 DL wheat bran, well mix, mixture in yogurt glass fill in to attract above 1 tl skimmed milk powders around the flies.
After 2 remove (possibly 3) days the oviposition container from the fly container.
Until two days wait, the larvae hatch.
Beginning for the raising of larva (3 cup A 5 DL):
1,5 DL water
1 bag dryed yeast
everything dissolve, add then 1 l wheat bran, well mix, no water add, the mixture may not be to damp.
Each cup with approx. 1 cm mixture ground cover. 3 - 4 soup spoons skimmed milk powders at the edge add (fodder for larvae),
now again 2 to 3 soup spoons of the wheat bran mixture add (milk powders cover).
Contents of the oviposition container evenly on all three cups distribute, likewise the remaining mixture.
After 3 - 4 days, depending upon need, with milk powder " nachfüttern". One can hold the three raising containers under different temperature conditions, so that the flies slip then also on different days.
The slipped flies with water soak and feed
