I have 3000 crickets 3 diff sizes all sizes of mealworms about 2000 superworm colony of about 500 an 4 colony’s of fruit flys when you got a lot of critters to feed you need constant access to food
I work in a fruit fly research lab, you might have an easier time transferring between containers if you use a food source with agar. Agar is like jello- you dissolve it in water, boil it, and it solidifies when it cools. Most fruit fly researchers use bottles and vials with a layer of agar-based food on the bottom. To transfer to a new container, we knock the flies to the bottom of the old container, quickly take off the lid and place the new container over the top of the old, turn the containers upside down, and knock all the flies into the new container. Since all the food is attached to the bottom of the containers, it doesn’t fall out when the container’s upside down. Even though the old container now has no adults, there’s still plenty of eggs and larvae to keep the culture going. Since there’s no gap between the old and new containers, we usually have little to no escapees, even with flies with wings. You could use a food recipe with agar, or just try adding it to a liquid recipe- we usually go for a concentration of 1.1%, or 11 grams per liter. I can also reply with our recipe if you want it! Also, if you’re finding that the flies don’t like a particular food formulation, you may want to try adding some alcohol. Flies are just like college students- they love a little bit of alcohol. We’ve had no issues with a concentration of 0.1%. Wine would probably be great since it’s fermented fruit, use about 8 milliliters per liter. Or maybe hard cider, at about 20 milliliters per liter.
I keep wingless fruit flies for my bettas & ghost mantis, and would love your recipe as acquiring restock through the mail when their food supply runs out is a bit of a pain. to be able to have a recipe for their food so I could produce more consistent food for my babies would be wonderful!
Hey! I also keep tiny geckos, and since fruit flies are a massive pain to deal with, I've been farming some other tiny feeders. You should try some of these instead of fruit flies: Peanut beetle larvae, they're like mini mealworms that eat peanuts, but are super tiny and super nutritious! Buffalo beetles/lesser mealworms, they breed like rats and are good for compost bins, and the larvae are also very nutritious. Little Kenyan roaches/surinam roaches, these are teeny roach species, I currently only have the former but so far they seem to be growing well, and they're pretty easy to care for. Rice flour beetles, these aren't as nutritious as the rest and are a bit tricky to harvest, but you can literally leave a culture for months, even a year without checking on it and they'll still breed and grow like crazy. Hope this gives you some new ideas so you don't have as many flies in your home. I know shipping bugs is kinda bad now during winter, but you should try to get your hands on some of these of you can, they're all great for tiny animals.
@@leafystreet sorry for the late response, I've had a fairly busy day. My primary source so far has been ebay, there are a few good vendors for each species there. Supreme Gecko sells peanut beetles on their site, and Roach Crossing is a pretty good place to get the tiny roach species. I've been thinking of selling some of my beetle cultures, though I'd likley wait until warmer weather to ship any. I'll be sure to let you know if I have any for sale in the coming months!
@@zsewqthewolf1194 I'm not sure cuz I never dwelve into lifespan but if you start breeding them then you'll have unlimited generation given enough space and feed needed. They do have short lifespan but they also use most of that to breed very efficiently.
That clears a lot up! As someone who seemingly always gets plagued by fruit flies in the summertime, I was so worried for your mental health when I saw that some escaped 😅😅😅 knowing they can’t fly makes a lot more sense
Y'all should try hanging sticky tape, it works WONDERS, mine filled up in a few hours and i still have a fruit fly issue here in Italy in winter but now i can't find the sticky tape so I'll be damned
@@YamiLunaria get a cup you won’t mind having fruit fly corpses in. Pour some fruit juice, a little vinegar and a teensey bit of dishsoap. Cover with plastic wrap and poke holes in the plastic. The flies can get in but cant get out and drown.
I used to work in a big nursery/greenhouse set up and we got lots of customers who would worry that the hummingbirds were "trapped" in the houses. I had to explain that they not only could get out in their own but that they were eating and feeding their babies the tiny flies and bugs that gather up at the peaks of the greenhouses. The "you're an idiot lady everyone knows they only drink nectar from flowers and sugar water" comments got tiring lol The owners just printed out the life cycle and feeding information about humming birds and put it in a few of the houses that got hummers routinely. But it was so cool to watch them zip and nab bugs
I raise fruit flies in cultures for dozens and dozens of micro geckos, dart frogs, and inverts, and I have to say, you are putting waaaaay more work into raising flies than you really need to. If anyone needs a super cheap, very easy recipe, I'll happily share mine.
Tip from when I had mantises. If you cut a hole in the lid and shove some foam in, the flies can’t get out and it leaves a little pouring spout. Just take the foam stopper out, pour the flies, and then put the foam back in :) Literally never put them in the fridge because I was too lazy
It's weird to see genetically engineered fruit flies my uncle is on the team that first genetically engineered them to have blue eyes instead of red eyes which might have been the first thing done for genetic engineering on fruit flies I'm not 100% sure
haha not a dumb question. I'll be honest im not 100% sure myself, but i believe that they have wings but they are too weak to support flight. I'm unsure whether this was a random genetic mutation or selective breeding
@@leafystreet There are random mutations that result in them being flightless (curled up wings, missing wings, tiny wings, undeveloped muscles) that were discovered by researchers and are now bred for.
Zamn, I was about to make a joke but this was really interesting, I never knew that you can genetically modify fruit flies, and I never knew that it’s a good good source. Have a great day and thanks for the information!
I bred these flightless fruit flies one summer when I raised a jumping spider and her slings. It was so fun and rewarding. I released the babies and mama back into my yard near the end of summer. I love seeing jumpers in my backyard knowing they probably came from that bunch 🖤
I commen u for your patience. I had to breed fruit flies for a project in highschool and quickly learned that I didnt have quite the patience for detail that was necessary to be a bio- scientist like I wanted.
My leopard gecko needs bigger food but ive found breeding my own meal worms was not only ridiculously easy but its paid for itself in months. I keep teasing my grandkiddos that if apocalypse hits we can feast on meal worms while others starve! Bwahahaha lol
Had to do the same thing when I raised mantis bbs. Kept the flies in a modified 2 liter bottle. When I needed to feed the hangry little monsters, I'd twist off the top, put one of those clear plastic condiment/ketchup bottles over the hole (they're a buck at target), tilt it slightly, fill it up full of "hops" and fire them into the mantis enclosure like a little fruit fly bazooka. Keeps escapees to a minimum. Makes the process easy af.
Theyre also really interesting to study for bugs because they reproduce fast and u can see how they evolve in generations pretty quickly. like going from black eyes to red eyes and they can be selectively bred and its just lots of fun things to learn with them.
those flies turned into walks 💀😭
STOP IT 💀
PLEASE 💀💀
Omggg underrated comment
🤣💀
Man im dead 💀💀💀
bro seasons them while theyre alive😭😂
Imagine a giant picks you up, seasons you while you're alive, then feeds you to his pets💀🤣
yumy
@@㲷 wtf y'all got the same PfP
@@㲷 wtf
@@㲷 lol
“Oh man, we got fruit walks again!”
300 likes no comment lemme fix that
@@Lush_Scapesone day i will carve your skin
Mmmm, calcium flavored!
Hmmm kinda suits it
Dude imagine being a lizard and your owner creates an entire private farm to keep you fed
You're such a good dude 😭
Humans do that for other humans. Good dudes.
I have an entire Dubia roach colony…. Didn’t see that coming when I started my reptile journey 😂
For free
I have 3000 crickets 3 diff sizes all sizes of mealworms about 2000 superworm colony of about 500 an 4 colony’s of fruit flys when you got a lot of critters to feed you need constant access to food
"What's all that movement back there"😂
one of life’s most important questions
@@leafystreet damn
Gave me urban rescue ranch energy
when your roommate decided to get close while u sleep
@@CrimsonAkato what lol
“Sometimes I just get excited to do stuff and think about the consequences of my actions 3/4 of the way through” truest statement ever 😭
Thats how children and dogs behave.
Sometimes my brain stops working so I do random shit
The best explanation of adhd I've seen yet lol
@@MacMashPotato u forgot about ur mom
@@MacMashPotato that's what makes it funny
I work in a fruit fly research lab, you might have an easier time transferring between containers if you use a food source with agar. Agar is like jello- you dissolve it in water, boil it, and it solidifies when it cools. Most fruit fly researchers use bottles and vials with a layer of agar-based food on the bottom. To transfer to a new container, we knock the flies to the bottom of the old container, quickly take off the lid and place the new container over the top of the old, turn the containers upside down, and knock all the flies into the new container. Since all the food is attached to the bottom of the containers, it doesn’t fall out when the container’s upside down. Even though the old container now has no adults, there’s still plenty of eggs and larvae to keep the culture going. Since there’s no gap between the old and new containers, we usually have little to no escapees, even with flies with wings.
You could use a food recipe with agar, or just try adding it to a liquid recipe- we usually go for a concentration of 1.1%, or 11 grams per liter. I can also reply with our recipe if you want it!
Also, if you’re finding that the flies don’t like a particular food formulation, you may want to try adding some alcohol. Flies are just like college students- they love a little bit of alcohol. We’ve had no issues with a concentration of 0.1%. Wine would probably be great since it’s fermented fruit, use about 8 milliliters per liter. Or maybe hard cider, at about 20 milliliters per liter.
I have learned a new job, thank you for interesting things
when i grow up i want to work in a fruit fly research lab
Could you share the recipe you are using?
The alcohol thing seems wild
I keep wingless fruit flies for my bettas & ghost mantis, and would love your recipe as acquiring restock through the mail when their food supply runs out is a bit of a pain. to be able to have a recipe for their food so I could produce more consistent food for my babies would be wonderful!
“I wish I knew my ex’a address really bad rn”
FOUL ☠️☠️☠️
The way you used us to smack the fruit fly and didn’t even kill it 💀😭✋🏿
We were too weak to kill the beast.
Basically we are too weak to even kill a flies
I guess you could say that we wouldn’t even hurt a fly.
@@Sribgo get out >:\
@@neru1584🤣🤣🤣
Hey! I also keep tiny geckos, and since fruit flies are a massive pain to deal with, I've been farming some other tiny feeders. You should try some of these instead of fruit flies:
Peanut beetle larvae, they're like mini mealworms that eat peanuts, but are super tiny and super nutritious!
Buffalo beetles/lesser mealworms, they breed like rats and are good for compost bins, and the larvae are also very nutritious.
Little Kenyan roaches/surinam roaches, these are teeny roach species, I currently only have the former but so far they seem to be growing well, and they're pretty easy to care for.
Rice flour beetles, these aren't as nutritious as the rest and are a bit tricky to harvest, but you can literally leave a culture for months, even a year without checking on it and they'll still breed and grow like crazy.
Hope this gives you some new ideas so you don't have as many flies in your home. I know shipping bugs is kinda bad now during winter, but you should try to get your hands on some of these of you can, they're all great for tiny animals.
Such great info thank you. Any recommends on sellers for these? I've been wanting to try some different feeders
@@leafystreet sorry for the late response, I've had a fairly busy day. My primary source so far has been ebay, there are a few good vendors for each species there. Supreme Gecko sells peanut beetles on their site, and Roach Crossing is a pretty good place to get the tiny roach species. I've been thinking of selling some of my beetle cultures, though I'd likley wait until warmer weather to ship any. I'll be sure to let you know if I have any for sale in the coming months!
@@thechickenwizard8172 That would be awesome thank you!
Peanut beetles kinda sound delicious
@@emstink 🤣
“The big 10 dollar question” 💀
As someone who always gets one or two fruitflies in their kitchen everyday and hates them witha passion, this makes me feel so uneasy TT
Go buy a handheld vacuum cleaner. I use a vacuum cleaner to suck them up, I leave them trapped in there for a week before disposing the dead flies.
These ones dont fly
@@donuts3476each generation of fruit flies can fly slightly better than the one from before
as a biology student I worked with a lot of mutant fruit flies I admit the process is fun, especially breeding them to create new variant lol
i know they have a short life span but would it be possible to brid them to live longer?
@@zsewqthewolf1194 I'm not sure cuz I never dwelve into lifespan but if you start breeding them then you'll have unlimited generation given enough space and feed needed. They do have short lifespan but they also use most of that to breed very efficiently.
The smell is horrid though
@@BobBob-pr4ehthey have a smell??? :(( now i’m not as interested
@@blitzie66 no no the media has a smell. It’s like funky Mac and cheese
That clears a lot up! As someone who seemingly always gets plagued by fruit flies in the summertime, I was so worried for your mental health when I saw that some escaped 😅😅😅 knowing they can’t fly makes a lot more sense
Ikr I hate when they show up in my kitchen at times...they drive me crazy
Ughh yess
Y'all should try hanging sticky tape, it works WONDERS, mine filled up in a few hours and i still have a fruit fly issue here in Italy in winter but now i can't find the sticky tape so I'll be damned
@@YamiLunaria get a cup you won’t mind having fruit fly corpses in. Pour some fruit juice, a little vinegar and a teensey bit of dishsoap. Cover with plastic wrap and poke holes in the plastic. The flies can get in but cant get out and drown.
@@phoenixliv you just saved my summer Thankyou!
“Damn fruit walks”
This short made my body feel like there was several fruit flies crawling on me-
Fruit walks
Great video, planning on breeding fruit flies soon because I will be getting Santa Isabel dart frogs soon.
YO. congrats. those guys are adorable. They remind me of raspberry danishes
bro was about to say "million dollar question" but corrected himself to $10 😭
this guy is a super villain 😭😭
Hey, if hummingbirds visit your area at summer and spring you can leave them flies in the feeders or in close hanging pots for them.
I used to work in a big nursery/greenhouse set up and we got lots of customers who would worry that the hummingbirds were "trapped" in the houses. I had to explain that they not only could get out in their own but that they were eating and feeding their babies the tiny flies and bugs that gather up at the peaks of the greenhouses.
The "you're an idiot lady everyone knows they only drink nectar from flowers and sugar water" comments got tiring lol
The owners just printed out the life cycle and feeding information about humming birds and put it in a few of the houses that got hummers routinely.
But it was so cool to watch them zip and nab bugs
@@Emeraldwitch30 Infinite iq
At first, I was confused and annoyed but when the fruit flies became fruit walks and he breeds them for his animals, I completely understood.
The craziest part is that fruit flies can be genetically altered to not fly. It’s amazing what science can do
I raise fruit flies in cultures for dozens and dozens of micro geckos, dart frogs, and inverts, and I have to say, you are putting waaaaay more work into raising flies than you really need to. If anyone needs a super cheap, very easy recipe, I'll happily share mine.
Tip from when I had mantises. If you cut a hole in the lid and shove some foam in, the flies can’t get out and it leaves a little pouring spout. Just take the foam stopper out, pour the flies, and then put the foam back in :)
Literally never put them in the fridge because I was too lazy
UA-cam has shown me the perfect Shorts to watch while eating
what a strange yet interesting hobby
you're basically running a restaurant for reptiles
lol "THE BIG... 10$ question"
Idk why but you smashing the bug on your hand with the phone your recording with was funny af and got a good chuckle out of me
same lol
My phobia of bugs can't handle this, my body is going into fight or flight mode
They're not flies tho... top comment called them "Walks"
flies covered in calcium: small coughing fits
Damn, the reptiles have a personal farmer/chef
His villain arc started. 💀
testing out 3 culturing methods: ua-cam.com/video/_l0rrP3WN9s/v-deo.html
What’s the white powered I keep seeing on other lizards food
@@funnybrowine227 probably calcium supplements
Those geckos are very adorable
It's weird to see genetically engineered fruit flies my uncle is on the team that first genetically engineered them to have blue eyes instead of red eyes which might have been the first thing done for genetic engineering on fruit flies I'm not 100% sure
Iii
As a biologist, watching people interested in fruit flies breeding made surprise
The big $10 question was pretty good lol
bro has a food farm on hardcore irl
"what's all that movement back there 😈"
I left some pecans on my counter that was breeding fruit flies pretty well.
The fruit fly growing is fascinating but the speakers voice is really quite nice.
Imagine you and your friend get into an argument and to get back at you he releases hundreds of fruit flies in your house.
But then it turns out they are genetically modified to not be able to fly so they all just die
They won't do just. Houseflies or ants will be great revenge though
@@halleyscomet2672 or wasps💀
Quick question: How would you breed them to not have wings?
There's probably a really obvious answer and I'm probably just stupid lol-
haha not a dumb question. I'll be honest im not 100% sure myself, but i believe that they have wings but they are too weak to support flight. I'm unsure whether this was a random genetic mutation or selective breeding
@@leafystreet Alright, thanks!
@@leafystreet There are random mutations that result in them being flightless (curled up wings, missing wings, tiny wings, undeveloped muscles) that were discovered by researchers and are now bred for.
the ten dollar question got me giggling
Breeding fruit flues was a fun elementary school science project...
I hate friut flies more than any bug...they appear out of nowhere in my kitchen at times...but the ones I encounter can fly...
The $10 question made me giggle
Dam those lizards are like “those walking sour patch kids are delicious !!!”
I had to pet sit my brothers' dart frogs a few time. Feeding them is fun 😂
I have a problem with these atm in my house, not many but enough for me to start looking at a lighter an aerosol can combo
Dusting them with calcium, genius way to get lizards to take their vitamins
That one fly that walks away.naw bro I’m gonna re-populate now
I'm glad the geckos get to eat but seeing fruit flies instantly enrages me
I use to have a small school of black skirt tetras that absolutely loved these. I liked keeping both the fish and the flies.
Imagine bringing a lady home and being like. " Oh, I forgot to mention, I keep a couple hundred fruit flies in that bottle, do not open"
my wifes boyfriend said its ok to do this
@@leafystreet idk, its just really unexpected, how do people usually react? 😂
I liked and subscribed entirely for the way you rubbed the secret sauce into the floor
Can you please release them into the NYC subway?
I think he’s breeding breeding the fruit flies the fruit flies because he wants to release them in a major city, and then he will be a true villain
I find his voice calming. 10/10
Thanks for reminding me I have a population genetics assignment regarding fruit flies and directional selection models.
Seasoning them while their still alive is crazy.
Nah cause the dad joke "Whats a fly without wings called?" Just turned a lot darker
"I dusted the flies with Calcium"
The flies: ⬛️ --> ⬜️
"Yes i finally have an opportunity to escape!!!"
*escapes*
"wait whats that giant white thing coming towards me??? JOHN WHAT IS TH-"
*gets crushed*
I did that too for genetic lesson during my college, dude.
It's pretty cool
My man really treat those flies like they were in WW2 💀
Bro’s gonna destroy an entire produce section
Thats the one thing stopping me from keeping smaller reptiles and amphibians. Because maggots are somehow scary to me and creep me the fuck out
I've bred these guys as a feeder for scorplings! Fruit flies were damn near the only thing small enough for them to eat.
Zamn, I was about to make a joke but this was really interesting, I never knew that you can genetically modify fruit flies, and I never knew that it’s a good good source. Have a great day and thanks for the information!
I also "breed" fruit flies, but in my compost, and they're just for the wild lizards and spices around there to eat.
pray those damn walks become the new fruit flies.
When I see you hold that cup size fruit flies I'm reminded of a scene in drake and Josh when drake has a huge plastic cube full of fruitflies😄
* Flies get dropped in terrarium *
**nosk music starts playing**
Dude smashed the walks with the camera 💀
Him: “I’ve been breeding fruit flies on purpose.”
Me: “Whats he gonna do with them?????”
Fruit flies born inside the breeding chamber:welp already living my last days before my death
how did you genetically modify them??
I bred these flightless fruit flies one summer when I raised a jumping spider and her slings. It was so fun and rewarding. I released the babies and mama back into my yard near the end of summer. I love seeing jumpers in my backyard knowing they probably came from that bunch 🖤
I love Josh's frogs! Everything I've gotten from them has been great, especially the plants
The way you tried to kill that fruit fly with ur camera makes me chuckle
I commen u for your patience. I had to breed fruit flies for a project in highschool and quickly learned that I didnt have quite the patience for detail that was necessary to be a bio- scientist like I wanted.
wild but interesting. wish i could follow but unfortunately these channels usually end up putting arachnids on my feed 😭
i remember wanting to eat the food for the butterflies. it smelled so goob 🤤🤤🤤
I love how you season them
Somewhere in there, you've bred a super fly and it was delicious.
Oh, I thought it was a over complicated petty revenge plan.
they’re like little powdered donut people 😂😂
My leopard gecko needs bigger food but ive found breeding my own meal worms was not only ridiculously easy but its paid for itself in months.
I keep teasing my grandkiddos that if apocalypse hits we can feast on meal worms while others starve! Bwahahaha lol
Had to do the same thing when I raised mantis bbs. Kept the flies in a modified 2 liter bottle. When I needed to feed the hangry little monsters, I'd twist off the top, put one of those clear plastic condiment/ketchup bottles over the hole (they're a buck at target), tilt it slightly, fill it up full of "hops" and fire them into the mantis enclosure like a little fruit fly bazooka.
Keeps escapees to a minimum. Makes the process easy af.
My chameleon loved those as a baby!
There was that episode of Drake and Josh, where they place fruit flies on the car of someone
I remember in science class in 7th grade, we got to study fruitfly genetics- it was pretty fun.
"Why are you doing this"
"I'm a sick fuck"
No, he’s trying to make a fruit fly army to fight the frog army
So many fruit flies 😍😭 i need those for my project😭😍
lmfaooo "the big... ten dollar question" 😂😂
Theyre also really interesting to study for bugs because they reproduce fast and u can see how they evolve in generations pretty quickly. like going from black eyes to red eyes and they can be selectively bred and its just lots of fun things to learn with them.
I actually know the vice-president of Josh's frogs. He is my teacher's husband
That’s a nope jar, a whole fucking jar of nopes
I also bred fruit flies for about 1,5 years. I had a pet jumping spider and during winter I couldn't catch any flies outside.