This is a video I wish I'd made years ago to support those fellow hobbyists using the various feeder flies available for use in the small animal hobbies. Whether you are raising predatory pet bugs, amphibians or reptiles, feeder flies are frequently on the menu for your pets at some stage of their lives. I cover the smallest types of feeder flies, the fruit flies, in a separate video here:
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But in this video we explore the care and maintenance for a few larger types of feeder flies that may become important to your pet once it graduates to a size where fruit flies are no longer providing enough of a gut load for your growing pet. House flies are the next size level up and they are one of the easiest insect feeders to work with among all feeder insects. These are commonly sold as house fly pupae which are essentially like fly cocoons where the immature fly larva AKA maggot is changing through metamorphosis into an adult fly. As pupae they are immobile little cylinders that look a bit like elongate maroon eggs. Since they do not move in this stage of their life cycle they are very easy to work with.
Also discussed are the similar but larger blue bottle flies AKA blow flies. These are commonly sold as spikes AKA maggots but they quickly change into pupae when kept at room temperature, and then feeding is straight forward again as the video explains.
And finally we take a brief look at black soldier flies, another common feeder insect within the order Diptera, the flies.
Together, these common feeder insects fill gaps that crickets, feeder roaches and the various worms including mealworms on the feeder insect market never did. For example, many mantises and other small predators don't have the same predator response to crawling foods that they do with winged or flying feeder insects.
If you have questions about these or any other feeders or pet bugs, please feel free to ask in the comments below.
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20 авг 2024