How to Make Media for Fruit Flies

While fruit flies are known to be notorious kitchen pests, they can also be grown as a nutritious treat for reptiles. Instead of purchasing fruit flies, you can raise them yourself in a media where they breed and lay eggs. Fruit flies reared for reptiles are wingless, and unlike wild fruit flies, cannot escape to populate your kitchen. Prepare your fruit fly media from ingredients found in your own kitchen.

Things You'll Need

  • Sugar
  • Dried instant mashed potatoes
  • Jar
  • Spoon
  • Dried yeast
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Instructions

    • 1

      Mix 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 cup of dried instant mashed potatoes in a jar, using a spoon. The mixture should be well stirred and smooth.

    • 2

      Fill the jar with enough water to make the sugar and potato mixture soggy, but not drenched.

    • 3

      Mix the fruit fly medium again, stirring everything together.

    • 4

      Sprinkle a pinch of dried yeast on the mash̵7;s surface. At this point, the medium is ready for the fruit flies.