HF Duds

[The_Asa]

Is there any way to tell if a housefly pupa is a dud, or if it will not hatch?

 

[chrisboy101]

lol a dud? dont think so. doesnt really matter anyway

 

[Rick]

Not really. When it does not hatch you know.

 

[The_Asa]

Hmm, that's what I thought. <_< Thanks though :lol:

I should wait about a week, correct?

 

[hibiscusmile]

The fresh pupae will be light in color, as they get ready to hatch they should become darker, I use about 30,000 flies or more a month, and thats pretty much how they look, cannot always tell this way, but also if u cut open one u think should hatch, u should see a fly in it, not goo.

 

[riegs22]

I cant even imagine what 30,000 flies look like, let alone raise.

So do they smell pretty bad with that many?

 

[hibiscusmile]

Not too bad, I put about 500 each of H.f. & bb f. a day into the fruit fly bottles, getting the pupae down in the second hole, and they hatch and climb up to the next space and I feed them this way thru a 1 1/2" hole in the enclosures! They only last a day, sometimes two. I don't even have to feed them, cause they dont last long enough for that, sometimes (I know, who has feelings for a fly?) I give em a small spray of water! So they really dont smell to bad, cause they are enclosed in the bottle.

 

[collinchang635]

Not too bad, I put about 500 each of H.f. & bb f. a day into the fruit fly bottles, getting the pupae down in the second hole, and they hatch and climb up to the next space and I feed them this way thru a 1 1/2" hole in the enclosures! They only last a day, sometimes two. I don't even have to feed them, cause they dont last long enough for that, sometimes (I know, who has feelings for a fly?) I give em a small spray of water! So they really dont smell to bad, cause they are enclosed in the bottle.

Have you ever had a housefly disaster? As in the houseflies getting out of the bottle.