Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) wingless culture

Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Wingless Culture — Producing, Feed-Ready (32 oz)

Description:

Buy these cultures if you need food immediately. These are feed-ready right out of the box or shortly after. We guarantee these will produce less than 48 hours or your money back.

Important shipping notice: No live arrival guarantee on all fruit fly shipments from May 19 – Sep 01. Place order at own risk or choose Next Day Air shipping for lag coverage. Contact us for more information.

Note: We may ship pre-producing depending on weather or location.

Wholesale options: Now listed. You cannot order any other items with a 48-pack fruit fly order, as this is the maximum amount we can fit in a single box. Any order with more than 48 cultures will be canceled.

Why we only breed D. melanogaster:

1. Higher, faster yields — Hydei can take twice as long to reproduce
2. Melanogaster outcompete mite cycle — Hydei reproduce too slowly to do this, so you can never beat mites
3. Eaten by all dart frogs — Regardless of size
4. Apterous melanogaster (wingless, not flightless) — Cannot convert to flying like hydei and flightless can. No messy kitchens and annoying fliers!

Culture details:

• Approximately 10–16 days old
• Comes with at least 150–300 wingless fruit flies packed in FrogDaddy Media
• Will continue to produce for another 7–14+ days
• Throw out the culture after 10 days from reception to prevent potential mites
• Always keep producing cultures away from freshly made cultures
• If planning to make your own cultures, use these producing cultures out of the mail immediately for seeding, then do not seed from them again

Good practice tips: These tips will help you succeed with fruit flies and keep mites at minimum. Our fruit fly cultures are always very low in mites, but we recommend doing your due diligence to keep your cycle clean.

Please review our fruit fly care sheet for additional information and our DOA policies on flies under the information tab.

Best for: dart frog keepers, tarantula keepers, and anyone needing a reliable, feed-ready fruit fly culture.

Why keepers love FrogDaddy fruit flies:

• Hundreds of happy customers
• Guaranteed to be amazing
• Optimized for years with vigorous strains
• Extremely dedicated to providing a fantastic experience and consistent stock
• We feed these flies to our largest frogs — over 2000 individuals in our collection