Fresh Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture

Very healthy active fruit flies. My African Dwarf Frogs really seem to like them!

I can give anymore stars. Little note, billions of wingless flies, my poor little lizard with into a food coma and my jumping spider is having a hayday. Definitely will be buying again!! The smell is very minimal too!!

I had an issue at the beginning but they fixed my problem without hassle. I asked, waited and then surprise I have a new culture. Live guarantee is a really good thing. Thank you joshs frogs

This isnt a dig at the company but I received mine on the 24th of April and I havent had it a full ten days and it was supposed to be fresh started and I have already got mites inside the culture they barely had a chance to bloom and now they wont. I only got one feed out of this culture and there not cheap . Im extremely upset and disappointed and I dont think I will buy again from them . So warning to other buyers you might want to try elsewhere to purchase these .

this vendor is the absolute best for getting quality flies. not even comparable to the 5 fruitflies that come from the big box retailers

I recommend ordering straight from joshs frogs I've given them alot of business with zero issues. I decided to order from Amazon for the first time and my package arrived 4 days late all flies were mixed into the media and frozen. Despite the good labeling Josh's frogs uses on each package stating live animals or insects this package was completely mishandled and left in my mailbox during January in montana which is very cold. Amazon uses usps for shipping and I do not support this decision. Something of this nature would have been better shipped through FedEx or ups as they are typically faster and knock on your door while dropping off packages. I reached out to joshs frogs and they were very eager to make it right.

Wow! Amazed with this seller. Product arrived SUPER fast and I can’t get over how many fruit flies there are. They just keep multiplying. My daughter’s jumping spider is happily fed and I’m relieved that I don’t have to make weekly trips for crickets that her spider didn’t seem to like. He loves these though. Thank you Josh!

This wingless fruit fly culture came with many fruit flies in eggs about to hatch, and once they hatched it was crawling with them. We used this to feed praying mantises that we hatched from egg sacs (also from Josh's Frogs). The flies can't fly but they crawl very fast and can jump pretty high (adaptation due to lack of wings I would guess). The easiest way I found to take out just a few of them for feeding the praying mantises was to lay the container on its side in the fridge for about 30 minutes or an hour to chill it down. (Make sure you lay it on its side, otherwise they can get stuck in their food when they become stationary.) At the same time, I put a small plate in the freezer. The flies will slow down to the point where you can just shake out a few onto the chilled plate. They will stay still long enough for handling. You can use a paint brush to push a few into the jar with the praying mantises and after a short time (usually seconds) they warm up and start walking around. You can also try using your fingers if you're gentle but you need to be quick because it will warm them up pretty quickly and then they'll start jumping away. The first batch of flies produced more eggs and I believe those flies produced another batch of eggs, so I think we got three generations of flies from this culture.