Early Crawl Out
From some of the suggestions I received here, I made some improvements. I enlarged the breeding area to about 3.5’ square and 5’ tall. My flush of flies from last years pupates had died off before these upgrades. I bought 1000 pupates from eBay & had no problem hatching them. They mated and laid eggs fairly quickly.
I used a cooked rice/fruit/coffee slurry & babied them on feed for while. The larva are thriving, I then switched to some soaked chicken feed because it’s less work. I am hoping to get the full lifecycle going before I start in with the farm waste.
The problem I am having now, is they they are crawling out pre-maturely (I think). At first I thought I wasn’t feeding them enough & they were searching for food. Now I think they are crawling just because🤷♂️
Maybe the population is getting too dense for my box? The main feeding area is about 2’ square.
Any idea why they would be crawling out so aggressively - they haven’t turned grey yet. I am not thinking they are pupating.
Any thoughts?
