I'm culturing flightless fruit flies and everything is going okay so far except that every time I open a culture, all the flies are hell bent on getting out.
I know you're thinking, of course they are but is there anything I can do to keep from losing a few every time I open a container? I don't want them escaping in my house...
I try putting them in the fridge for an hour or so to slow them down but it hardly slows them down any.
Another question is, is it okay to put it in the fridge if there's larvae in the container? I obviously don't want to kill the larvae but I do want to slow down the emerged flies so I can put them in another container.
I know you're thinking, of course they are but is there anything I can do to keep from losing a few every time I open a container? I don't want them escaping in my house...
I try putting them in the fridge for an hour or so to slow them down but it hardly slows them down any.
Another question is, is it okay to put it in the fridge if there's larvae in the container? I obviously don't want to kill the larvae but I do want to slow down the emerged flies so I can put them in another container.