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RE: Raising Fruit Flies

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Subject: RE: Raising Fruit Flies
From: Doug Karpa-Wilson <dkarpawi at indiana_edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:41:04 -0500
In-Reply-To: <119307C79254D211B5C200805F0DDF827765CF at exchange_littonkester.com>

>Are you sure that these are fruit flies and not some sort of midge?  Anyway,
>put the box in the refrigerator for a while and chill the little guys.
>They'll be so lethargic that you can do whatever you want with them.  Have
>you ever seen an entomologist's aspirator? Excellent way to catch small
>insects.
>

You know one of the easiest things to raise are probably fungus gnats.
I've not tried using them as food, but I generate them by the zillions just
by overwatering rich soil in the greenhouse.  I suppose they'd be as good a
drosophila.

Doug

Doug Karpa Wilson

Department of Biology
Jordan Hall
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405


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