why I breed fruit flies

[blastovich]

Dude imagine being a lizard and your owner creates an entire private farm to keep you fed

You're such a good dude 😭

[TheMikeMcCaffrey]

"What's all that movement back there"😂

[insertnamehere]

“Sometimes I just get excited to do stuff and think about the consequences of my actions 3/4 of the way through” truest statement ever 😭

[aleccandib]

I work in a fruit fly research lab, you might have an easier time transferring between containers if you use a food source with agar. Agar is like jello- you dissolve it in water, boil it, and it solidifies when it cools. Most fruit fly researchers use bottles and vials with a layer of agar-based food on the bottom. To transfer to a new container, we knock the flies to the bottom of the old container, quickly take off the lid and place the new container over the top of the old, turn the containers upside down, and knock all the flies into the new container. Since all the food is attached to the bottom of the containers, it doesn’t fall out when the container’s upside down. Even though the old container now has no adults, there’s still plenty of eggs and larvae to keep the culture going. Since there’s no gap between the old and new containers, we usually have little to no escapees, even with flies with wings.

You could use a food recipe with agar, or just try adding it to a liquid recipe- we usually go for a concentration of 1.1%, or 11 grams per liter. I can also reply with our recipe if you want it!

Also, if you’re finding that the flies don’t like a particular food formulation, you may want to try adding some alcohol. Flies are just like college students- they love a little bit of alcohol. We’ve had no issues with a concentration of 0.1%. Wine would probably be great since it’s fermented fruit, use about 8 milliliters per liter. Or maybe hard cider, at about 20 milliliters per liter.

[littlepurple]

The way you used us to smack the fruit fly and didn’t even kill it 💀😭✋🏿

[thechickenwizard]

Hey! I also keep tiny geckos, and since fruit flies are a massive pain to deal with, I've been farming some other tiny feeders. You should try some of these instead of fruit flies:

Peanut beetle larvae, they're like mini mealworms that eat peanuts, but are super tiny and super nutritious!

Buffalo beetles/lesser mealworms, they breed like rats and are good for compost bins, and the larvae are also very nutritious.

Little Kenyan roaches/surinam roaches, these are teeny roach species, I currently only have the former but so far they seem to be growing well, and they're pretty easy to care for.

Rice flour beetles, these aren't as nutritious as the rest and are a bit tricky to harvest, but you can literally leave a culture for months, even a year without checking on it and they'll still breed and grow like crazy.

Hope this gives you some new ideas so you don't have as many flies in your home. I know shipping bugs is kinda bad now during winter, but you should try to get your hands on some of these of you can, they're all great for tiny animals.

[Lu]

“I wish I knew my ex’a address really bad rn”
FOUL ☠️☠️☠️

[yukilu]

As someone who always gets one or two fruitflies in their kitchen everyday and hates them witha passion, this makes me feel so uneasy TT

[auleaf]

as a biology student I worked with a lot of mutant fruit flies I admit the process is fun, especially breeding them to create new variant lol

[clownfromclowntown]

That clears a lot up! As someone who seemingly always gets plagued by fruit flies in the summertime, I was so worried for your mental health when I saw that some escaped 😅😅😅 knowing they can’t fly makes a lot more sense

[Starr__Dropp]

This short made my body feel like there was several fruit flies crawling on me-

[prestonholck]

Great video, planning on breeding fruit flies soon because I will be getting Santa Isabel dart frogs soon.

[zeduck]

bro was about to say "million dollar question" but corrected himself to $10 😭

[aksbs]

Hey, if hummingbirds visit your area at summer and spring you can leave them flies in the feeders or in close hanging pots for them.

[lildad]

Idk why but you smashing the bug on your hand with the phone your recording with was funny af and got a good chuckle out of me

[twentydixoncider]

flies covered in calcium: small coughing fits

[icetweiz]

what a strange yet interesting hobby
you're basically running a restaurant for reptiles

[retierashia]

At first, I was confused and annoyed but when the fruit flies became fruit walks and he breeds them for his animals, I completely understood.

[just_another_person_who_li]

YouTube has shown me the perfect Shorts to watch while eating

[Viveka_Norge]

The craziest part is that fruit flies can be genetically altered to not fly. It’s amazing what science can do