Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture

This is my first time buying live insects online. I am extremely happy with this culture. I followed instructions and waited a couple days for breeding, ect. The population exploded, they were all so mobile. And, so many more than I expected. Plus, no smell. I checked every time I opened it. Even after a couple weeks , no smell and they are still breeding. I am satisfied and will purchase again from this seller.

Delivered to wrong address but found it. There are very few live fruit flies in culture and very few eggs/pupae. Poorly packed with no padding and no way to keep fruit flies warm on their trip cross country. No markings on box that say it’s live animals or fragile so the contents of culture rolled around in cup and crushed a lot of the fruit flies. Won’t be sourcing my fruit flies from here again. Quality not worth price or wait. Hoping I will be able to collect enough live fruit flies to start a new culture as media looks old and pretty dry, but there are so few I don’t think I will be able to. I really wanted this to work because it’s so easy to order through Amazon. Back a week later, it is beginning to produce, but is completely infested with grain mites, to the point where I’m probably just dumping it and the two cultures I tried to start with it.

The delivery date kept changing but I was okay with that. However when culture arrived there were no flies in it. I did find some larva so hopeful that I will see some flies soon. Will update my review on what happens. 8/28/23 Update: Do not throw your culture away if you do not see flies! As started above mine did not have live flies but was full of Larva. I placed it in the container i use for incubating my cultures for a few days and there was an explosion of flies! There were tons of flies and I am still having eggs laid, larva hatching and flies hatching. Very impressed now with it and will buy from seller again!

Arrived with a bunch of dead adults, likely from rough shipping, but quite a few survived. They eventually bounced back and are thriving. This product is fine if you don't care how many survive, you just need it to work.

Well these flies are not wingless!!! They will escape and fly! Only gave 5 stars so people will see this

I’d give a 0 star if it allowed. It wasn’t only late and led to 5 of my spiders dying but it got here busted with a crap ton outside the bucket all along the crack of the busted cup and inside the box! So glad this stayed outside until I opened it. Will never do this again!

Last 9 days I was frustrated because the old flies were dying and no larvae and or pupae were appearing! The other main frustration was from the vendor who was answering only by using same default messages that the flies will appear but not clear how long it may take etc ! Anyway I am happy to see some larvae and pupae today! Thanks

Oh my gosh larger container than I expected very fresh and my spider love them thank you you have a wonderful product