Saturday 9 May 2009

Your own colony of drosophilas?



Now, this is tempting.. Ebay has a variety of drosophila cultures ready to be shipped to your home. You can choose from wingless or flightless, and the best part is, they're 100% Natural and HUGE!

They have underdeveloped wings and instead of flying they jump about 1/2 of an inch. Who would feed these to their reptiles? They would be great to watch jumping about on the kitchen table.

Though, I'm a bit concerned about the whole "essentially gut-loaded with the absolute best quality stuff possible" and "(Not Lab Flies), 100% Natural". How did they manage to reduce the wing size without using scientific methods?

1 comment:

  1. They probably just did it at home or somewhere else that was'nt a lab, and only used natural products like herbs and vitamins and stuff.

    Ohh or they could have just reduced the wing sizes using scissors or knives and cut them a bit.

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