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Mites in my fruit fly culture

Started By DDD101DDD , Mar 1 2021 2:15 PM

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#21 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted March 9 2021 - 4:12 PM

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Forgot to ask but how do you get fruit flies out of the cup thing without them going all over the place? I dunno I can just see them jumping out and onto my carpet, in which I'll never sleep in my room again.

I take a wider plastic container with fluon on it outside and then dump the fruit flies in by shaking the container.

He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

#22 Offline gs5248 - Posted March 9 2021 - 8:45 PM

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Forgot to ask but how do you get fruit flies out of the cup thing without them going all over the place? I dunno I can just see them jumping out and onto my carpet, in which I'll never sleep in my room again.

What I do is I will smack the jar down onto the table several times to get the fruit flies down to the base, and then I will pour them into my ants enclosure like a liquid.