RE: Winter CP food (fruit flies)

Magnus.Thoren@planteco.lu.se
Tue, 3 Jan 95 15:25:44 +0100

I use wingless fruit flies (Drosophilla) to feed
Pinguicula's and it works excellent. I freeze them
before putting them on the plants. I don't think
they can get away alive but it's easier that way
and maybe it's cruel to put live flies om the
plants. There is a risk that flying forms while
appear and if they get loose they may turn into a
pest (which they did in a student place where I
was living). I think it's possible to obtain food
to the fruitflies and perhaps also wing- or
flightless fruitflies from a company could
Carolina Biological Supply Company somewhere in
the U.S.
Magnus Thor`n
Plantecology, Department of Ecology, Lund University
Ekologihuset, S-223 62 Lund, Sweden

Magnus.Thoren@planteco.lu.se

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