The Fruit Fly Store

01/19/2025

Go see my Spooky Girl at the show! She has some awesome spoods and decor for you!! Tell her I said hi!

Set up and ready for a great day at Cin City Reptile Show 🖤 I have gorgeous I7-9 female and male Regal jumping spiders as well as enclosures and decorations! Plus I made 3 adorable Valentine's Day themed playgyms! If you have any questions at all feel free to PM me 🙂 Hope to see you 🖤🕷️

01/19/2025

Reminder that Monday is a USPS holiday so no shipping will happen until Tuesday.

01/18/2025

What a deal!! Get yourself a little boy spood! You know you want to! What’s one more spood right? You got room!

BOGO BOYS
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

01/15/2025

Some Bad News not related to the disasters. It appears the USPS has lost some packages, again. If you were expecting a package last week and the tracking shows no movement, please send me an email with the order number to [email protected] so I can send a replacement or issue a refund. Apologies for the inconvenience

01/10/2025

For those of you that have inquired as to when I will have micro worms again, here is a pic of what stage they are in right now. They are in the baby stage. There are a ton of them so I am hoping in the next week or 2 I will have them available again. The background is the centimeter side of the measuring tape. The babies are super tiny. This is at 20 percent zoom. The micros are the size I prefer to sell because the ba ones are super super tiny!

01/09/2025

Folks - I am unable to ship items on time as I am up in Pasadena helping my brother save our mom’s house. The fires came within 2
Blocks of her house and there are
Embers stil flying everywhere. So far we are safe but we have been up all night taking turns to douse any embers that land on our property or the neighbors properies. I apologize. This is what it looked like yesterday. Please be patient and if you need a refund just email me and I will handle it as quickly as I can.

Update: looks like we are in the clear now as the fire is now moving away from our area. Really nothing left to burn. My mom’s house is safe as are all the houses in our neighborhood. They stopped the fire 2 blocks north of my mom’s house but Altadena is gone. I grew up in that house and in that neighborhood. So many fiends of mine, from as far back as grade school and jr high have lost their houses and everything they own. Some had almost no warning and lost mementos and other sentimental objects that can never be replaced. I am heading back to San Diego tonight and my heart goes out to all the people that didn’t fare as well as we did. So much anger now from so many people. Why did the utilities shut down the generators and pumps so the firefighters had no water? So many questions and no answers. Please please please, if you want to help Do not fall for the scammers that have popped up. Don’t give money to go fund me pleas unless you know the people involved. If you want to help, give to to the Red Cross or to other legitimate charities. Please don’t lose your hard earned money to some scammers. Thank you everyone for your well wishes and understanding during this very traumatic period. I love you all and please stay safe.

-Raf

01/07/2025

Due to the heavy weather affecting the FEDEX main hub, our shipment of Blue Bottle Fly Larvae and Lesser Worms (different distributors) is stuck in Memphis. If you placed an order for BBFL or Lesser Worms, the shipment will be delayed at least one day. If you would like to cancel your order, please send an email with your order number to [email protected] and it will be cancelled and refunded. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope it's only a day delay. If you didnt get an email, check your junk mail and make sure you're signed up for marketing notifications on the store as I currently have no other automated way to send mass mails.

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01/06/2025

I'm sure this is not news for some of you but here's an alert from the USPS - Heavy snow, freezing rain, icy conditions, and severe weather events in the Central Plains through the Mid-Atlantic (Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington D.C., and New Jersey) may impact the processing, transportation, and delivery of mail and packages. Please allow additional time for final delivery of your item.

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01/05/2025

Great deal alert! Go get some awesome enclosures before they’re all gone! WebbyHomes has some awesome enclosures!

01/04/2025

Looks like it's time to start watermarking my pictures on the site. Look what I found today? Does that pic look familiar? I don't know if I should be annoyed or flattered? I do have a watermark that the awesome Kailyn from Barely Regal Spoods made for me.

Rep-Cal Ultrafine is an excellent source of calcium for all reptiles and amphibians. 100% natural Oyster Shell phosphorous-free with added Vitamin D3.

01/04/2025

This is pretty cool! Go get some gift cards and get a chance at a free web puppy that includes shipping!

This is my version of giving back and sharing the love!

Between now and Valentine’s Day I’m going to be doing something I haven’t done before!

I now have digital gift cards on my website (link at the bottom of this post).

Every $5 Gift Card ørdered comes with a chance of getting a frêé spood! Each $5 gets a spot on a frèěbie wheel. (A $10 Gift Card is 2 spots, a $20 Gift Card is 4 spots, and so on. Only one gift card can be used on an order, so make sure you don’t purchase multiple individual $5 Gift Cards unless you want to spread them across different órders. However, you do not have to spend the entire balance of a Gift Card at once — you can keep placing órders with it until the balance is used up. They are not refundable for cash or any other form of credit.)

The GCs can be used on my website, toward accessories, enclosures, your new best friend, future enclosures 🤫, whatever you feel like!

Once enough gift cards are purchased to cover the cóst of at least the sh1pping, I will spin the wheel and whoever it chooses gets a Br33der’s Choice P. regius, male or female, INCLUDING SH1PPING!!!

Think of this like a r@ffļè, but you get to keep your spending mónèý! 😁

The more GCs bought, the more COMPLETELY FR33 spoods I’ll offer!

Please ask any questions in the comments. 🥰

Get your Gift Cards here:
https://kitscritters.com/products/gift-card

01/04/2025

Happy New Year to all my peeps!! I hope you all are safe and relatively sane after the holidays and the crazy year 2024. I wanted to add a couple of links here in case you didn't know about them or forgot.

Blogs - Information on Feeders and their care. I am working on getting downloadable PDFs for these as well. https://spoodfood.com/blogs/news

Breeders and Providers Lists - Open to all Breeders and Providers of Arachnid supplies. Includes a clickable/Zoomable map to find one close to you. https://spoodfood.com/pages/breeders-and-providers

If you want to be added to the map, email your info to [email protected] and I will add it.

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12/29/2024

New blog entry on the site: Lesser Worm (buffalo beetle larvae) care guide

Caring for Lesser Worms (Buffalo Beetle Larvae): A Nutritious Feeder for Jumping Spiders Jumping spiders, with their lively personalities and captivating hunting skills, thrive on a diverse and nutritious diet. Lesser worms, also known as buffalo beetle larvae (Alphitobius diaperinus), are a fantast...

12/29/2024

New on the site blogs: Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) care guide.

Proper care for black soldier fly larvae ensures they stay fresh and nutritious until it’s time to feed your jumping spiders. Here’s how: 1. Housing Container: Keep larvae in a breathable container. A shallow plastic tub with small ventilation holes works well. Substrate: BSFL don’t require su...

12/29/2024

Update to blog post! I have updated the blog that refers to houseflies to hopefully answer some of the many questions about flies not hatching. It includes a chart of what to expect as the stored flies age. The pupae I ship are less than 2 weeks stored in a refrigerator.

Raising Adult Flies for Feeding Insects or Pets Insect life cycle Flies go through a complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, adult. Flies are sold as pupae because they are easy to ship in this resting phase. Time Flies Need to Develop Temperature affects how fast insects develop. The warmer the c...