How to Culture Fruit Flies

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Learn how to culture fruit flies with tips such as how to select fruit flies, in this free insect video series.

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Summary: Humans share a fascination with wildlife throughout creation, regardless of how close to it they desire to be. The popularity of networks like Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel offer evidence of this, but even more convincing is the great frequency with which people bring animals into their homes. Quite often people are raising reptiles and amphibians such as snakes, lizards, frogs, and salamanders. All of these animals need an adequate food supply in order to survive. Fruit fly culturing provides an abundant food source for small reptiles and amphibians in their terrariums. If you would like to learn how to culture fruit flies, learn for free online from one of our experts.

In this free online video series learn how to culture fruit flies from fruit fly culture expert Richard Reavis. Watch these videos to learn about the different types of fruit flies. Also learn fruit fly culturing essentials such as what materials and supplies you need to culture; how to select fruit flies; how to clean the culture area; how to measure and properly mix the media, water, and yeast for the culture; how to add flies to the culture; how to prevent infestation and contamination of mites and wild flies; and how to prevent poor production.

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

About the Expert

Contact: blackjungle.com

Expert: Richard Revis has been keeping and breeding poison dart frogs for over 10 years. He is co-owner of Black Jungle Terrarium Supply located in Greenfield, Massachusetts, where a collection of over 200 dart frogs encompassing more than 60 different types is maintained and bred. Black Jungle also sells a wide variety of terrarium-suitable plants and supplies.

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