Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture

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!

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.

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

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.

All the larvae/flies arrived outside the container and none were alive/viable. This could easily have been prevented with a breathable fabric liner, like a paper towel

There seem to be a large number of live flies and larvae, which is great. However, the cup was shoved into a box that was slightly too small, forcing the sides to buckle. This caused medium and larvae to ooze out into the box even around the packing tape used to try to keep the top on. The result was a huge number of larvae living on the box and sticky side of the packing tape. Made for a very messy arrival and transfer.

I received this container of fruit flies to feed my dart frogs. It came in a cardboard box with holes in it, and the plastic container that the flies were in was cracked so all the flies were gone. I did contact the owner and they did send another Container, but the quality was not as good as Josh’s frogs. I guess you get what you pay for and I will never order from this company again.

Well, this was a good product experience. Arrived with a few live flies, within days there was plenty of larvae, now I have tons of fruit flies to feed my freshly hatched mantids. I am about to move to a large size fly now. This culture smells a little more funky than others I've used in the past, but my critters don't seem to mind so I guess I don't either. I did have an issue with delivery, but I think that was more a UPS problem rather than the merchant.