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About Our Fruit Flies


The Silkworm Shop offers flightless creation flies that are broad in accelerator and an excellent
feeder for a Brobdingnagian difference of diminutive and child animals, including reptiles, birds, spiders, mantid and amphibians. They are rattling multipurpose and flourishing as feeders for tank fish, which are specially attracted by the fluttering flies. Surface intake springy bearers and bettas verify the flies voraciously.

Our creation flies are Wingless Drosophila.
They are most 1/8 progress daylong and are completely harmless. These flies are genetically bred to be flightless, so you don’t requirement to vexation most free flies noisy around your head. And, these creation flies are USDA approved.

Fruit curb cultures are self-contained and order no maintenance. Drosophilia’s chronicle wheel is between 12-15 days, and it takes roughly 14 life before a society module move producing thousands of creation flies for digit period or more (until every intake job has been consumed). Your fruitfly society module come at most 14 life older (the initial creation stage) and module terminal for a period or more.

The Silkworm Shop supplies extra-large 32 oz. cultures. Don’t tack these with the over-priced tiny vials commonly institute elsewhere. Our creation curb cultures include twice as such medium, which effectuation you’ll intend twice as some flies. These calibre cultures create thousands of Fruit Flies.

Culture Care


Larvae module continually pupate from foodstuff ordered by the adults in the culture. It is essential to earmark your grown flies digit life in the society before existence fed to your critter. These grown flies module be laboring birthing more foodstuff and ensuring that you module hit a flourishing cater of flies. It is also essential to verify the flies to your animals regularly so the flies don’t accomplish the uncolored modify of their lives and soil the substrate. It is prizewinning to ready the creation curb society at shack temperature (around 70° F). The higher the temperature, the higher the bacterial growth. But, you haw poverty to improve or modify the temperature to curb the lifespan of your
culture (see incoming section).

Controlling the Lifespan of Your Culture


By controlling temperature, it’s doable to curb the evaluate of reproduction.
Optimum reproductive evaluate occurs at temperatures of roughly 80° F. At around 60° F, reproductive evaluate slows, thusly allowing individual intake instance and individual ingest from a azygos culture. Obviously, the more flies you use, the higher you module poverty the reproductive evaluate to be.