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lele
at Tue Aug 19 19:06:45 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by lele ]
awhile ago I asked a zoology fiend at UNH about raising house flies and here is his response to me:
"We have raised house flies and other dipterans in the past, but, other than Drosophila, we've found it rather messy to do, though easy. If you simply catch a few house flies, blue or green bottles, etc. and put them in a cage like the one you had the late Stella in, along with sugar, a container of water (with wood chips in it so the flies don't drown when they go to drink), and a can of cat food or something comparable, the
flies will eat sugar and cat food, lay eggs in the cat food, and then you'll get a load of maggots growing in the cat food. That's when it gets messy and smelly, but as I say it is easy. What we do now is order house fly or blow fly pupae from Carolina Biological Supply and wait for them to emerge. It's less messy and far less smelly. We also raise fruit flies in
the usual manner and that's not messy either (to feed very small spiders).
Good luck with your chameleon. Mark"
The cage he refers to Stella being in (she was a spider of mine) is a 12x12 energing cage from Bio-Quip. Personally, raising house flies quickly became not an option(!) but you might want to check out Carolina Bio for maggots (EEEEWW!)
hope this helps!
lele
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- house fly cultures - chacoantegu, Tue Aug 19 18:58:55 2003
 RE: house fly cultures - lele, Tue Aug 19 19:06:45 2003
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