The Fruit Fly Store

03/14/2025

03/12/2025

Allentown peeps! Stop by and get some
New web puppies! Great deals to be had!

03/11/2025

I gotta tell you, these decorations are awesome! I have some and I love them!

03/08/2025

Jelly pots work for blue bottle flies. This is the second week for some and there are no dead flies in there. Excuse the dirty cup, they track jelly all over the place.

03/05/2025

How fresh are my house flies when I get them? I get a shipment of 30,000 every week. That's right, every week! This is how they come to me. They dont really get much fresher than this right?

03/02/2025

I have questions….

03/01/2025

Question for those of you that have bought the honey bear fruit flies. Are the containers too big? Are they still producing too many flies? Would you prefer them to be smaller? Any improvements you can think of? I appreciate all feedback, good or bad. Seriously. All feedback is welcome.

02/27/2025

I guess I had both blue bottle flies and soldier flies in the same container because now I have one hatched. For those that haven’t seen one before here it is. Looks like a black wasp to me

02/27/2025

This morning there were none, 4 hours later there are 4. The joys of blue bottle flies. It took 3 weeks to the day from when i put in a few spikes.

02/25/2025

You have a village even when you don’t know it!

02/25/2025

Soap box time coming up: I have advocated many times about the importance of having backup options for feeders, be it another vendor or your own supplies. I got a lot of feedback from folks that were negatively impacted by the USPS mess last week. As a pet parent myself, I have always had a backup source. In the before times, when I was a customer of Josh’s Frogs, I relied solely on them for my feeders and even some of my frogs. I quickly realized that no matter the size of the vendor, once that package leaves their hands, there is nothing you or they can do to ensure a quick or safe delivery. My backup became having supplies to make my own cultures of fruit flies, because that is what my frogs ate. The backup to my backup was rice flour beetles. The RFBLs were so easy to keep once started that I never touched them for 6 months because I didn’t need to. Well, that save me a couple of times when either the package got lost or the culture I made crashed. The point here is that I had a backup source to compensate for WHEN, not IF, a disruption happened. I still encourage those that are new parents, when they ask for advise , to get a culture kit to keep as a backup or use to save money. I also recommend the RFBLs as a feeder because they are set it and forget it feeders. They need no moisture, they don’t need refrigeration, they don’t crawl up the sides of bins and they live in their food! When you need them, they’re there for you. They can even be in permanent rotation as feeders once they start producing. So as much as I do to ensure you get quality food when you need it, the new normal with shipping, regardless of carrier, is that problems will happen more often than ever. I feel terrible about what happened, not because of the cost of replacements or the extra work, but because of the stress it caused some pet parents. I had more than a few folks reach out,
Stressed out because they had no food and either their pet was coming in or their pet had not eaten because they ran out of food. Please
Don’t stress yourself out. Have a backup! If you’re forgetful like me, get a subscription! A lot of vendors have them, as I do. Find out if your local Petco or Petsmart or pet store has anything that can be used in an emergency. Even if their flies are crap, they’re better than nothing. Okay, off my soapbox. Have a backup!

02/24/2025

Looks like a bunch of packages are out for delivery today. If any one of these are your tracking numbers, they may still show delivered in San Diego but they are actually moving.

02/23/2025

I am sending out an email regarding the shipping issues last week. I have had responses through various means and I am having a hard time tracking. If you don't see an email, check you junk mail please. Please reply to that email so I can properly track the resolution. Thank you. I am cross-posting these on various groups.

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02/22/2025

Once of the questions I often get is how many micro worms come in the tub. My answer is always, they're so tiny that I cant count them. Here is a little video to how you just how small they are why I cant count them. If you have used them before, you can attest as to how tiny these things are.

02/22/2025

Update # I forgot how many: USPS is showing 20 packages with an expected delivery of today, 2/22 that show "delivered to San Diego earlier in the tracking". Confused? So am I! What makes this even harder is that even the ones that arrived where they were supposed to arrive, dont show it on the tracking. Ugh! I will be making another post tomorrow asking you to confirm delivery of your packages as I cant use the tracking info reliably. Fingers crossed that your packages arrive today if theyre missing!

02/21/2025

So the green mantis I rescued a few weeks ago is passing. I found her on the floor of the enclosure barely moving. I put her outside so she could get one last feel the wind and sun. I have her egg sac so I hope to have baby mantids in the spring. Rest easy Vera, I got it from here…