Hi,

Its easy to avoid if you have only a few clutches as caracal pointed out, but if you have hundreds of eggs in a room or closet (at the same time), they can give you a run for your money. During the warm season I have included those hanging, sticky fly strips in both my caging and incubator area of my building. They work through random contact, not necessarily chemical attraction, for all flies and moths. For a particular egg box that has a dead egg in an un-removable position, deep in the clutch, I cut a strip and leave it right in the egg box. A strip of duct tape sticky side up also works in the box. In both cases, not because it necessarily attracts them, but because they walk over every millimeter of the interior of an occupied egg box and they will eventually get stuck, hopefully before their larva cut holes in the bottom of you good eggs, which they can and will do. They seem to be especially fond of diamond python eggs in my building. Ever pick up a clutch of 16 fertile dp eggs, only to notice albumen oozing out of a cut in the bottom of every egg that was resting beneath the surface of the perlite? Not fun. Good topic though.

Will

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