Digger
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This is my first foray into raising HFs as feeders. They've done ok through an initial hatch. I've smeared small amounts of:
1) honey/peanut butter
2) bran cereal mixed with milk, honey and a tiny bit brown sugar (sorry Mick)
3) small amount of moist cat food (beef/salmon)
After 2 or three days, the container has developed a distinct yeasty smell. Very much like sour beer. And -- the flies are alive, but very lethargic and stumbling around. Not flying (as they had been a day or so ago).
Do you think this is a reaction to ingesting fermenting food?
1) honey/peanut butter
2) bran cereal mixed with milk, honey and a tiny bit brown sugar (sorry Mick)
3) small amount of moist cat food (beef/salmon)
After 2 or three days, the container has developed a distinct yeasty smell. Very much like sour beer. And -- the flies are alive, but very lethargic and stumbling around. Not flying (as they had been a day or so ago).
Do you think this is a reaction to ingesting fermenting food?
