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[miszt]

I've been feeding my Lasius niger colony fruit flys recently, n they love them, problem for me is that i live on the 2nd floor of a flat, so not many come to visit, but i've found a site selling non-flying fruit fly cultures, if anyone wants to give them a try i've got sum on the way, and i'm hoping my temnothorax nylanderi are gonna like them to, has anyone any experience with nylanderi eating fruit flys?

anyway, heres the link...(maybe sumthin Antstore mite like to investigate for sale aswell )

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[JimmyVe]

I also use them to feed my starting colonies. The like them as well. (Al of my species had them, so i think yours going to like them to)
I buy them at the local pet shop here. I now there is a mixture you can make from fruits and stuff and if you place it outside you soon have fruit flys to but i do not have much time do that.

[mpir]

@Jimmy

Can you share with us the magic recepie? I'd like to give it a go.

[JimmyVe]

Okay mpir is shall post it this week, if i find the time. It is in dutch so i need to translate it first.

[miszt]

the problem with doing that is that u will get flying fruit flys, which can be a pain every time u open the container

glad to hear lots of ants like em nice easy food!

[Dr.House]

Hi ^^

I've got problems with fruit flys and therefore build a nice, cheap trap
You take a PET bottle, like the 1L bottle of Coca Cola and nicely cut the upper half (okay, one or two cm above the upper half). Then you have to put a little whole in the middle of the closing. You put the less tasty parts of a banana into the bottle and put the upper half upside down into it. Now it should look like a funnel. just make sure everything fits nicely and that there are not any additional holes where the flys could escape.
Now just wait and if you have some in it put the bottle into the fridge or the freezer. After that you can feed it, often they will come back to life but your ants will catch em

greetz

[mpir]

@Dr.House

Great idea! So banana does the trick, huh? Will try it out.

[Dr.House]

Banana smells very strong and attracts every fruit fly in town to your new trap You just need the paring of the banana, eat the rest yourself ^^
You also can use fruit flavours you normaly would use for baking. But banana has the benefit, that the flys would proliferate if they get a little food.

[JimmyVe]

In deed Banana is very good to attracts the flys but it will go bad very soon. This recipe i have should not go bad for about 2-3 weeks. But i still need to translate it.

[Dr.House]

Okay ... you translate it and I will fill it into my bottle-trap

[JimmyVe]

Here is the recipe i have told you about, i never tried it out myself.
It is from a Belgium forum and i have translated it as good as i could. Hope you understand it all.


Recipe for fruit flies

Ingredients: 400cc water, 1 banana (or 125g other one sweetens fruit), oat malt 200-250g, 3 coffee spoons leaven or 10g fresh baker leaven, 5 beer leaven tablets, nipagine(ethyl p oxybenzoaat, E 214) to obtain in pharmacy, gelatine sheet 3g, house keeping vinegar or apple vinegar, syrup (with apples, pears and dates).

Working method: Put the water in a pot with the gelatine sheets, put the pot on a small fire and rudder the banana in to it. When it boils put the oat malt in it. Let it boil for a few seconds and take the pot of the fire. Leave it to cool down. (best way to do it is in a tube of cold water) Flatten the beer leaven tablets. If the temperature for the mixture is about 40°c you can put in the syrup. Rudder and put in the fresh baker leaven, beer leaven and a little bit of nipagine. Rudder very good now and leave the mixture leavens for about 10-12 hours in a hot place. After that mix the mixture fine, you can add a little water if necessary. Don't make it to fine so the flies don't drown in it.

That should do the trick.

[miszt]

Nice thanx will give that a try! mind if i copy and add it to my own site?

[JimmyVe]

I don't mind. It is not mine nether i copy it from a dutch site.

[nepenthes_ak]

It is really better to just Invest in a fruit fly culture, it lasts allot longer and wont go bad as fast. Thats just my experience

[JimmyVe]

This recipe should last long to. But i can not guarantee that because i did not tried it out myself.