Flightless Fruit Flies Culture

(18 reviews)
$7.00

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Flightless Fruit Flies | Buy Live Cultures

Live fruit flies are a great option for feeding small lizards and many species of frogs, especially because of their reproduction cycle. Each culture of flightless fruit flies has a lifespan of about one month, and even after they die they will continually pupate from eggs laid by the adults in the culture! This will allow you to keep fruit flies for a while, as long as they are taken care of accurately. Regular fruit flies should be kept at 70 - 75 degrees and giant fruit flies should be kept at 78 - 83 degrees. If the culture is not stored at an appropriate temperature, it could possibly mold. The flies have everything they need inside of the container they are shipped in; just feed to your animal as needed! Buy flightless fruit flies from us today!

We advise that the customer should never remove all of the fruit flies from the Fruit Fly Culture, a few should be left in the vial for breeders. This will increase the lifespan of the vial and result in the need to buy fruit flies less often.

  • Each Live Flightless Fruit Fly Culture contains 40-50 medium adult flies. 
  • Cultures should be stored at room temperature and kept out of direct sunlight.
Regular fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are about 1/16"
Giant fruit flies (Drosphila hydei) are about 1/8"

FEEDING INSTRUCTIONS:

Gently tap the top of the culture to knock the fruit flies to the bottom. Remove cover and shake out the desired amount. It is recommended that you dust your flies with a vitamin supplement such as Fluker's Repta-Calcium or Fluker's Repta-Vitamin prior to feeding them to your pet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

18 Reviews

  • 5
    Fruit fly culture

    Posted by Marlaina Junior on Jun 21st 2019

    This is an update on my previous review, which, unfortunately, for some reason, was never posted. So, even though all the flies died within 6 days of receiving the culture, some of the larvae have hatched and I have a nice new supply of flies. And there are more 'babies' waiting to be born. I updated my rating to 5 stars because of this. No, it's not a big vial. If you need to feed these flies in abundance, you need a bigger culture. But I have to say, I am quite pleased that I have a continuous supply for my nymph mantises. Do not throw the culture away when the flies die. If you look at the sides of the vial, you will see tiny, white oval shaped 'eggs'. In a couple of days they will turn black and then hatch in about 4 days.

  • 3
    Flightless Fruit Flies

    Posted by Marlaina Junior on Jun 19th 2019

    I received the fruit fly culture on June 10, 2019 with directions for their care. There were plenty of flies in it. I followed the directions carefully. I fed my nymph mantises that day. The next day I noticed that many flies were dead. On the third day, I fed the mantises again but there were many more dead flies in the culture. By June 16, all the flies were dead. I kept the culture, because it looks as though there are larvae on the sides of the vial and some are actually moving. But, I did order more live flies from another company because I have to feed my nymphs and I can't wait for these larvae to hatch. I'll post again if/when the larvae hatch.

  • 2
    Bad Instructions

    Posted by Felix DuCharme on Aug 4th 2018

    Arrived with many dead on bottom, but many still alive so that was okay. In instructions, it says that no care is required, but as my first culture I didn't know that the food on the bottom became a solid and it needed humidity. All died in 2 days, big waste... no reply from support..

  • 5
    Giant Fruit flies Hydei

    Posted by Jim McGuinn on Jul 28th 2018

    We were having record high heat so I chose the overnight priority service. They shipped them the evening before and they arrived before 10:00 am the next morning.

  • 1
    fruit fly culture

    Posted by Katheryn on Jul 15th 2018

    Absolutely the worst online purchase of a fruit fly culture. You expect to receive what is available in pet stores a large jar of flies, but what you get is a small vial and when I say small I mean one inch by two inch in size with about 10 love flies which died in two days and nothing else has produced at all. I had 40 baby chameleons to feed. Don’t waste money.

  • 4
    happy with the purchase

    Posted by Lillian on Jul 9th 2018

    Over all I’m happy with the purchase but I thought I was gonna get more adult flys I got around 10 ... there’s a lot of larva witch is really good , I’ll just have to wait a few more days to feed my fish . G

  • 1
    Hydei fruit flies

    Posted by Katheryn Currey on Jun 27th 2018

    I think I expected the same cultures you find in the pet store but what I received was a small vial of about 20 flies. When I say small I mean a one inch wide by 2 1/2 tall. Says it produces 500 flies. I am trying to feed multiple chameleons so this was a waste of money. Disappointed.

  • 2
    Most arrived dead

    Posted by Tiffany on Jul 12th 2017

    I was outside when the mailman dropped off the package, and opened it immediately when I got inside. Not only are these flies EXTREMELY tiny, but most of them are dead. Not impressed.

  • 5
    Flightless fruit fly culture

    Posted by Nathan on Jun 21st 2017

    They arrived with lots of flies. They laid a lot of eggs and are in the larva stage now. Great product I'm very happy with them and so is my baby anole.