Growing Food yum.....

[marvin1997]

I got this idea when I saw some fruit flies flying around the banana and I caught one put it on my ping(kind of cruel).Then I thought that:what bout growing some insects on your own?So,anyone has idea?Fruit fly maggot would be good.

[funkychips]

Marvin, there are some lab companies that sell drosophila culture but largely meant for lab research and university practical courses. My friend used to order some for his small insect-eating geckos. Although they are sold in bulk and may cost a bit expensive. They have a catalog for you to choose, such as winged, wingless, vestigial (small) wing, red eye, white eye etc. It's an ideal bite size for CPs but if the price is a drawback I guess there is no point as we don't need that much flies at one time. Unless you have a CP farm :D

[sooxiwei]

i do know that there are something call wingless fruitflies, trying to get it at the moment but not sure if the creature is true or not

[Khoas]

Originally Posted by sooxiwei

i do know that there are something call wingless fruitflies, trying to get it at the moment but not sure if the creature is true or not

Oh yes they exist, fruit flies are one of most studied creature on the planet. They used in genetic studies and education. The result is the DNA map was done through inducing genetic mutations and then crossing the different mutations. There are truly bizarre mutation such as legs for antenni (bad spelling).

[funkychips]

Khoas, those were really scary creations, some even have double heads, four wings, mouthparts on the body The principle is to insert the gene where one wants it to grow at embryo stage, and it will grow as instructed by the foreign gene.

[arvin555]

For me, instead of growing insects for food, I'd rather attract insects to the plant. What I have done was to put a banana peel near my droseras for example, which attracts fruitflies, and they usually end up on the drosera leaves as food.

The only thing that I grow for my CPs, are moina/Daphnias for my utricularia and Aldrovanda, but actually the main purpose for that culture is for my fish collection, I don't feed my water CPs daphnias that often.

TTFN
Arvin