Has anyone heard of any flightless or wingless house flies being sold anywhere? Do they even exist? As most of you know, scientists have managed to remove use of the wings, or the wings all together, of the two fruit fly species commonly used in our hobby through genetics, but what about larger species of flies? Could it be possible to do this? I'd think that doing so would make the larger fly species so much more convenient to use as feeder insects.
Flightless House Flies?
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PhilinYuma
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I don't know of any, though Orin has mentioned this in the past. I have, by accident though, raised a lot of flightless bluebottles (not due to genetics but to "birth defects") and they are a nuisance. Ambush predators like flying insects that zoom past them. Crippled bluebottles don't zoom anywhere and just crawl around, looking, to tell the truth, rather stupid.
nothin on my end either, the older they are the less they will fly though.
