Feeding greenbottle fly

[checco]

What is the best food for a green bootle flies colony?I try with jam,marmelade and honey,but I read that the best food is the meat like that of dog / cat food.What do you think?

 

[PhilinYuma]

What is the best food for a green bootle flies colony?I try with jam,marmelade and honey,but I read that the best food is the meat like that of dog / cat food.What do you think?

Oh boy, checco, are you in luck! If you go here: http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18902&pid=139928&st=0entry139928 and read the post dated 130910 (Italian for 091310!) you can post and I shall mail you out a bag of food tomorrow, Customs form and all!

OR you can make up the following mixture yourself:

4 cups ground dog/cat food (use a coffee grinder, or a hand cranked meat grinder).

1 cup brewers' yeast ("lievito di birra" I think, I just looked it up!)

1 cup casein (caseina?)

Mix them up and add 2 parts warm water to one dry food. For bluebottles or green bottles, add about 15-30ccs of mashed up live on top of the mix -- chicken liver works fine. Put the mix in whatever large container you are using and pull it out in a few days. Buona fortuna!

 

[LauraMG]

Mmmmmmmm, I'm hungry now Phil!

Will that work to start a wild culture? As in, put it outside and they'll come around?

 

[more_rayne]

Mmmmmmmm, I'm hungry now Phil!

Will that work to start a wild culture? As in, put it outside and they'll come around?

Rotting catfood slurry worked like a charm, but the stench will make you puke.

 

[LauraMG]

Rotting catfood slurry worked like a charm, but the stench will make you puke.

I think I threw up a little in my mouth just imagining it!

If I'm gonna do it, now's the season though because they're gonna start dying off for winter

 

[checco]

Thanks very much!Your Italian is perfect