---
product_id: 419121893
title: "Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture"
brand: "surmen legacy"
price: "$45"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
category: "Surmen Legacy"
url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/419121893-freshly-started-wingless-drosophila-melanogaster-fruit-fly-culture
store_origin: NZ
region: New Zealand
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# Culture matures post-delivery All life stages included Room temperature storage Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture

**Brand:** surmen legacy
**Price:** $45
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🦎 Cultivate your own live feast – because your exotic pets deserve the freshest bites!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture by surmen legacy
- **How much does it cost?** $45 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/419121893-freshly-started-wingless-drosophila-melanogaster-fruit-fly-culture)

## Best For

- surmen legacy enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted surmen legacy brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Optimized for Small Breeds:** Perfectly sized and tailored for poison dart frogs and other small reptiles and amphibians.
- • **Complete Lifecycle Nutrition:** Supports all life stages from larva to adult fly, ensuring a continuous, nutrient-rich food source for your insectivores.
- • **Convenient Room Temperature Storage:** No refrigeration needed, making it easy to maintain and manage your culture at home or in the office.
- • **Ready to Cultivate, Not Instant Feed:** Designed as a starter culture that grows over time, giving you a sustainable and fresh supply of live food.
- • **Trusted Brand with Growing Popularity:** Surmen Legacy’s culture ranks in the top 400 reptile & amphibian food products, trusted by enthusiasts aiming for quality and sustainability.

## Overview

The Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture by Surmen Legacy is a 1-ounce starter culture designed for reptile and amphibian enthusiasts. It contains all life stages of fruit flies, requiring incubation post-delivery to develop into a thriving live food source. Ideal for small insectivores like poison dart frogs, it offers a sustainable, room-temperature-storable feeding solution that supports healthy pet diets.

## Description

OUNG CULTURE not ready to be immediately fed out. Ideal food source for poison dart frogs and other small insectivores

Review: No Flies in Culture but give it time! - The delivery date kept changing but I was okay with that. However when culture arrived there were no flies in it. I did find some larva so hopeful that I will see some flies soon. Will update my review on what happens. 8/28/23 Update: Do not throw your culture away if you do not see flies! As started above mine did not have live flies but was full of Larva. I placed it in the container i use for incubating my cultures for a few days and there was an explosion of flies! There were tons of flies and I am still having eggs laid, larva hatching and flies hatching. Very impressed now with it and will buy from seller again!
Review: Disappointed in quality, culture full of mites. - Delivered to wrong address but found it. There are very few live fruit flies in culture and very few eggs/pupae. Poorly packed with no padding and no way to keep fruit flies warm on their trip cross country. No markings on box that say it’s live animals or fragile so the contents of culture rolled around in cup and crushed a lot of the fruit flies. Won’t be sourcing my fruit flies from here again. Quality not worth price or wait. Hoping I will be able to collect enough live fruit flies to start a new culture as media looks old and pretty dry, but there are so few I don’t think I will be able to. I really wanted this to work because it’s so easy to order through desertcart. Back a week later, it is beginning to produce, but is completely infested with grain mites, to the point where I’m probably just dumping it and the two cultures I tried to start with it.

## Features

- Reptile & Amphibian Food

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B09VNM544P |
| ASIN  | B09VNM544P |
| Age Range Description | All Life Stages |
| Best Sellers Rank | #44,039 in Pet Supplies ( See Top 100 in Pet Supplies ) #316 in Reptile & Amphibian Food |
| Brand Name | Surmen Legacy |
| Breed Recommendation | Small Breeds |
| Customer Reviews | 3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars (224) |
| Date First Available | March 16, 2022 |
| Date First Available  | March 16, 2022 |
| Directions | Store in room temperature. Not ready for immediate feeding; culture and prepare before usage. |
| Manufacturer | Surmen Legacy LLC |
| Manufacturer  | Surmen Legacy LLC |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Size | 1 Ounce (Pack of 1) |
| Specific Uses for Product | Reptile & Amphibian Food |
| Target Audience Keyword | reptile-and-amphibian-pets |

## Product Details

- **Age Range (Description):** All Life Stages
- **Brand:** Surmen Legacy
- **Flavor:** No Flavor
- **Item Form:** Powder
- **Specific Uses For Product:** Reptile & Amphibian Food

## Images

![Freshly Started Wingless Drosophila Melanogaster Fruit Fly Culture - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71a9eKkjgnL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ No Flies in Culture but give it time!
*by M***. on August 17, 2023*

The delivery date kept changing but I was okay with that. However when culture arrived there were no flies in it. I did find some larva so hopeful that I will see some flies soon. Will update my review on what happens. 8/28/23 Update: Do not throw your culture away if you do not see flies! As started above mine did not have live flies but was full of Larva. I placed it in the container i use for incubating my cultures for a few days and there was an explosion of flies! There were tons of flies and I am still having eggs laid, larva hatching and flies hatching. Very impressed now with it and will buy from seller again!

### ⭐ Disappointed in quality, culture full of mites.
*by J***L on March 20, 2024*

Delivered to wrong address but found it. There are very few live fruit flies in culture and very few eggs/pupae. Poorly packed with no padding and no way to keep fruit flies warm on their trip cross country. No markings on box that say it’s live animals or fragile so the contents of culture rolled around in cup and crushed a lot of the fruit flies. Won’t be sourcing my fruit flies from here again. Quality not worth price or wait. Hoping I will be able to collect enough live fruit flies to start a new culture as media looks old and pretty dry, but there are so few I don’t think I will be able to. I really wanted this to work because it’s so easy to order through Amazon. Back a week later, it is beginning to produce, but is completely infested with grain mites, to the point where I’m probably just dumping it and the two cultures I tried to start with it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ First time buying bugs online!!! Won’t b last
*by S***R on May 14, 2024*

This is my first time buying live insects online. I am extremely happy with this culture. I followed instructions and waited a couple days for breeding, ect. The population exploded, they were all so mobile. And, so many more than I expected. Plus, no smell. I checked every time I opened it. Even after a couple weeks , no smell and they are still breeding. I am satisfied and will purchase again from this seller.

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*Product available on Desertcart New Zealand*
*Store origin: NZ*
*Last updated: 2026-03-04*