Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) CREAMSICLE Culture (DEVELOPING - NOT FEED-READY) - 32 oz

BRAND NEW FLY!

Make way for one of the highest-yielding fruit flies on the market. A beautiful orange fly with high energy. This is a vestigial fly, so temperatures must remain below 80 degrees. These flies are classified as gliders but do not glide as far as Turkish gliders, and are generally less jumpy, but still have high energy.

Vestigial flies (flightless) have wings that carry more supplements to your animals! They also produce more biomass per unit than apterous flies.

Please read our DOA policies on flies under the information tab. This culture is developing (5-8 days old) and will come pre-seeded with 50-75 flightless fruit flies packed in GreenFuel PRO Media or our new signature Citrus PRO Media, made specifically for Creamsicle melanogaster. Adults may be dead on arrival due to them being older flies. Dead adults does not warrant replacement...again this is normal. You are looking for actively moving maggots in the media. It will take approximately 5-8 days to produce flies from when you receive it depending on environmental conditions (60-65 degrees may take over 8 days, 70-74 6-7 days, 76-78 degrees 5-6 days). These are just estimates. Your conditions can significantly alter these timeframes.

You can keep cultures in an enclosed bin with a small amount of ventilation with a heat pad on LOW to increase humidity and speed up breeding if you are in a dry, cool climate.

Under absolutely optimal conditions (79 degrees and 60+% humidity), you may have new flies in less than 6 days. We recommend keeping vestigial flies under 75 degrees ambient.

Please review our fruit fly care sheet for additional information.