Free shipping on All US orders $75 & Up
Free shipping on all Canada & U.K orders $100 and up
Regular price
$8.99
Sale
Plus Bonus Fruit Fly Kit
Each culture is made with OUR PROVEN FRUIT FLY MEDIA containing all the vitamins, minerals, and color enhancers that your pets need to thrive. These tiny brown flies, while smaller when compared with D. Hydei reproduce much quicker; maggots form about 4 days after the freshly made culture and flies begin to hatch about 8-14 days (10 days being average) from arrival. D.
. Click here for the Fruit Fly Care Sheet
Fun Facts about the Drosophilia Melanogaster Fruit Fly
Your Wingless Fruit Fly Starter Cultures, containing Drosophila melanogaster will be 2-6 days old when you receive them. Melanogaster fruit flys are smaller than D. Hydei just reaching 1/16" fully grown.
Melanogaster are wingless (and obviously flightless), but can climb smooth surfaces. These flies are easy to raise and culture. For optimal production Fruit Fly Cultures should be kept around 70-76F.
When your package arrives, the best thing to do is find a shelf in your house you can put your cultures on where they won't be bothered for a few days.
Fresh cultures take several days before they start producing hundreds of flies. You don't want to feed off the flies that initially come in the culture! If you do so, the culture may fail to produce more flies...be patient and wait for a sudden increase in fly production.
You can feed D. melanogaster fruit flies to the following...