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re: Fruit fly culture
- To: live-foods at actwin_com
- Subject: re: Fruit fly culture
- From: "David W. Webb" <dwebb at ti_com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:10:09 -0600
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>Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 15:50:00 PST
>From: "Dave Lains" <dlains at hotmail_com>
>Subject: Fruit fly culture
>
>Any thoughts on instant potato media? I use it occasionally (when I
>have a large population of flies going) but have inconsistent results
>with it. I use one part potatos one part water a teaspoon of sugar and
>a pinch of yeast but the cultures mold or get covered with bacteria
>rather quickly and only produce a few flies. When I use Carolina's
>media I get hundreds of flies and several generations. I would like to
>get the instant media down before I run out of commercial media, help!
You might try adding a tiny amount of yeast to the mixture. When I added
yeast to my white worm culture, the white bread I was feeding them with
didn't mold as quickly.
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