ImTheBugFreak
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I put cat food and lunch meat ( Ham ) in a modified 2 liter bottle and set it outside on top of my table in the shade. I left it there for about 3 days and I went outside to check on it and all the fly's had drowned in the mush! I was upset and just left it alone hoping more fly's would venture in and tomorrow I would get them out before they drowned too! Come tomorrow I found these guys crawling / floating around in the mush and up the side of the 2 liter! It pretty much freaked me out and I almost threw it in a fire LOL! But then I thought it must be the begging stages of fly's? So I did some research and I found out I was right its fly larva. I then read and understood they needed to be fattened up and then lay out to dry to go into their next phase. I now have most of them in their pupae stage and am waiting for them to hatch and relay their eggs and then feed them to my mantids! I now have an endless supply of flies 
I have to admit before I did this I thought it was going to be a lot harder to get a fly culture started but now that I have done it, its actually not that hard.
The fly larva inside the modified 2 liter bottle
The pupae stage of the flies
I have to admit before I did this I thought it was going to be a lot harder to get a fly culture started but now that I have done it, its actually not that hard.The fly larva inside the modified 2 liter bottle
The pupae stage of the flies
