pedro92
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How do they work? Are they good? Easy? Do they take alot of time? can someone post pictures of them and the setups
At the moment I got about 100 of them and 100 houseflys locked in my ghost enclosure... they eat alot of honey... The ghosts seem to strike at them more than the houseflies, but considering they are swarmed with food neither are eating much anymore... both are about as stuffed as me by hour two at the chinese buffet lol.How do they work? Are they good? Easy? Do they take alot of time? can someone post pictures of them and the setups
True. You need to plan it carefully in order to always have some on hand. THey should not take two weeks to turn into flies. To speed it up put them someplace warm.basically whats already been said but wanted to add that if you use bluebottles like this, try to get into the habit of taking a few maggots/pupae out of the fridge on a regular basis, like every few days. the problem is they take close to two weeks (i have found) to pupate and then hatch out into flies. so lets say you take some out of the fridge, you wait a bit, and they hatch and everythings fine and all your mantids have food, fine. but then the flies run out. so you take some more out the fridge, but they wont hatch for another 2 weeks, and some people even have trouble getting any to hatch. for this reason, if you take some out of the fridge (even when you dont need them straight away) you can have a constant reliable supply. i guess its almost the same principle as always having too many FF cultures than you need.
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