SteveUK28: Fruit Flys (14. Dez 2007 21:00)

Hiya guys..
Just wondering.. How many ppl here feed there ants flightless fruit flys.. and what do your ants think of them ??
Steve

Purifier: (14. Dez 2007 21:14)

I only use pinkies and the flys of em. My Diacamma loves both. I never tried fruit flys. I thought they are hard to feed cause they are so little....

miszt: (14. Dez 2007 21:33)

they are a good food source, i use them for all my ants :)

tail__: (14. Dez 2007 21:59)

I tried normal (winged) fruit flies and my ants like them very much, they are great for small ants, like Lasius, which normally eat insects of this size. Especially for small, young colonies, becouse ants don't forage in groups yet ant may have difficulties with something bigger. Wingless flies can be given alive, so the ants could really hunt them.

ant dude: (15. Dez 2007 11:51)

I only use pinkies and the flys of em

me too purifier :)

hmm think ill try some fruit flys then......i dont have to buy them though cos near are reciling bin theres loads of em all u have too do is simply lift the lid up for a second and there u are thosands of them!!!
but my m.rubras dont like them there just not intrested lol ill try with my other colonies/ future colonies though hopefully they will be ok for them 8)

Skippy: (15. Dez 2007 12:42)

I buying flyes larvae in Aquashop for fish hunting ;) ... they selling about 100 larvae in one box for small price and they will became cocoon to 1-2 weeks. They are cocoons about 1-2 weeks too , then they became flyes ;) .... so much flyes. One box of this larvae cost here about 1 EUR and I have food for ants for cca 1 month :) . Fruit flys are VERY small :( , maybe for monomorium or tapinoma or some young queens ;)

Ashton McStansfieldio: (15. Dez 2007 13:46)

I have recently started to feed my ants flightless fruit flys and they love them:) Very much easier to feed than crickets and easier for the ants to overpower and move than mealworms. The tales i`ve heard of the fly cultures smelling bad are exagerated (my spelling is bad i think). I have no noticable smell in my ant stock cupboard. I would recommend them to anyone.

SteveUK28: (15. Dez 2007 13:47)

i just brought some larvae myself.. then realised my ants are libernating so the flies are more than likely gonna be hatched and dead by the time my ants r ready to eat them... Ohhhh Wellll

mpir: (15. Dez 2007 17:07)

Once they hatch... deep freeze them. :wink: Then they can wait for the ants to come out of hibernation. :D

JimmyVe: Re: Fruit Flys (15. Dez 2007 17:57)

Hiya guys..
Just wondering.. How many ppl here feed there ants flightless fruit flys.. and what do your ants think of them ??
Steve

I give them to my small colonies, they are perfect for them. ;)