You might try Ed's Fly Meat, Saurian, or Black Jungle, who might be able to do it with special cool packing and overnight Fed-ex, although none is very near you. (This gets pretty expensive, though.) I did do a search for retailers in Florida, but didn't find anything except PetCo, and in my experience, their tiny containers are way over-priced without enough flies in them to even feed a good sized dart for one day, or even seed a new culture.

If you don't already culture your own, I'd certainly consider this. With the recyclable lids that are vented with a fabric over the holes, I no longer get any of the mass escapes and wild fruit fly contamination I used to get occasionally with one hole over a coffee filter or paper towel.

If you do culture them and have had a crash, and this is an emergency, you might be able to collect some field plankton with a net if you can find a place that's pesticide free. I do this anyway in season, just to vary my frogs' diet. In a past post, I suggested aphids, which my frogs love lapping right off the leaf, but someone else who tried it, said theirs ignored them. The tiny black "pavement" ants are considered good frog food by many dart keepers. There are so many species of ants, it's difficult to identify them, but generally, if they build their nests between walkway stones and such, and are very tiny, it would be safe to collect some and try them as long as no chemicals have been sprayed around. You can bait them with some fruit sprinkled with sugar in a deli-cup on its side next to the colony.

I tend to over-answer posts, anticipating other possibilities, so forgive me if it's totally irrelevant to your problem.
Saurian


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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

D. auratus blue, auratus Ancon Hill, galactonotus orange, galactonotus yellow, fantasticus, reticulatus, imitator, castaneoticus, azureus, pumilio Bastimentos. P. lugubris, vittatus, terribilis mint green, terribilis orange.

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