Homemade Fruit Fly FoodRECIPE #A
Anthony Hundt
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8 bananas
1/4 cup sugar
rolled oats (oatmeal)
1 packet bakers yeast
Put banana and sugar in blender and mix
until the banana is liquefied. Mix in oatmeal until it becomes firm, but still moist. Put
mixture in wide mouth quart canning jars. Add a few granules of bakers yeast to the
surface and add about 30 fruit flies. Cap the jars with a paper towel folded in fourths
held on with a rubber band. Substitution with other types of fruit also works.
Variation, use the following ingredients:
1 cup banana (about 2 bananas)
1 cup apple sauce
1 Tablespoon vinegar
2 cups oat meal
RECIPE #B
"Raising Fruit Flies", Nancy Nehring
Reptiles Magazine, October 1995, pp. 26-28, 30
1 cup water
1 tablespoon cornmeal
1 teaspoon powdered agar
1 tablespoon molasses
1/8 teaspoon calcium proprionate (optional)
1 package bakers yeast
Mix all ingredients except yeast, then heat until
boiling. Quickly pour mixture into clean culture jars. Cap and let cool to room
temperature. This mixture can be stored in the refrigerator with a tightly capped lid
until ready for use. When ready to use, sprinkle a couple granules of baker's yeast on the
surface and add fruit flies. Calcium proprionate is a mold inhibitor used in bread.
RECIPE #C
"Mailbag: Raising Fruit Flies", Dr. Floyd Waddle
Reptiles Magazine, February 1996, pp. 4, 6
baker's yeast
brewer's yeast
instant potato flakes
tegosept (methylparaben)
To prepare dry culture media, mix 1 part brewer's to 10
parts instant potato flakes by weight. When ready for use, mix 4 grams of the mold
inhibitor, tegosept (methylparaben), to 1 gallon of hot water. Let cool and add an equal
amount of water to the dry culture media (by volume). When the mixture solidifies, add a
couple of granules of baker's yeast to the surface and add fruit flies. Calcium
proprionate may be used as a substitute for tegosept.
"We grow food not bait."
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