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[Ants4fun]

Found this on a European forum.

http://www.antkeepin...71bc206a3d48cba


Found them for sale. Might be a good food source for ants without having to worry about the pesticides in house flies.

http://www.azdr.com/...oductCode=FHF32

Edited by Ants4fun, March 8 2016 - 6:02 PM.

[dspdrew]

I wonder why they won't reproduce. I would want to produce more of them.

[gcsnelling]

http://www.jangala.c...ure webpage.htm

[Trailandstreet]

I wonder why they won't reproduce. I would want to produce more of them.

Why should they not?

You can get them as food for densrobates and the common housefly as well as the goldfly (don't know, how it is called here) breeds in captivity.

[dspdrew]

That's what the website said.

[Barristan]

I bred them several years ago.

 

I setup a box similar to the one described in: http://www.jangala.c...ure webpage.htm
 

When you see (and hear) the flies mating (takes around 3 days after hatching) you have to put something in the box where the flies can lay their eggs in. There are several recipes for a fodder pulp but most of them contain milk powder. I used the following recipe (http://www.dghtserve...ead.php?t=74947):

 

• 10 parts wheat bran
• 2 parts milk powder
• 1 part dextrose

 

You mix everything and put it into a small cup (around 5 cm in height, I cut off the bottom of a PET bottle). Also add some water but it should only be moist not wet.

 

After 4 days you remove the cup from the box (if the cup stays too long in the box, the flies will lay too many eggs and you will have too many maggots). Now you mix again a pulp:

 

• 2 parts wheat bran
• 1 part milk powder
• some dextrose
• few vitamine powder (I didn't use it for my try)

 

Than you put everything in a new cup (like the ones used for fruit fly breeding) and on top you put the content from the old cup with the eggs in it. Than you can add some wood wool and close it with gauze or a nylon stocking.

 

After 8 days (depending on temperature) first flies should hatch.

 

It was very smelly which was the reason stopped breeding the flies. Ants do love them however...

Edited by Barristan, March 9 2016 - 10:02 AM.

[Ants4fun]

Thanks!