Housefly - gutloading ?

[SSimsswiSS]

Anybody have a good recipe? I've just been using milk and sugar water mix, and slices of fruit.
I only buy a gross of them, maybe 6 times a year from Spider Pharm.

 

[kinyonga]

Maybe this will help...
http://adcham.com/html/insects/insects-fly-rearing.html

 

[ponders]

Hey Steve,

I have been using:
plain yogurt mixed with cereal baby food, Ca powder and Dry Milk.
Mix it up into a thick paste, then smear a thin layer in the cup on the side. In several hours their tummys are nice and white and full and ready to feedYumyum!

 

[CNorton]

I used a buttermilk and bee pollen paste BUT it went moldy in only 3 days! Did you guys use any mold inhibitor?

 

[ponders]

I just feed them the one day and then feed them off. Otherwise I found the mix melted down the side and the extra flies all drown in it. I keep the mix in the fridge and prepare a new cup every day.
I put the dry milk in with the others that aren't being fed off right away and a few water crystals.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I used a buttermilk and bee pollen paste BUT it went moldy in only 3 days! Did you guys use any mold inhibitor?

Sugar is a great inhibitor.

Thanks, Kinyonga, and Ponders.