This Drosophila???, I have met in my lab. I have been keeping them for a while. I have no answer for my previous question so far. I here add new pics and a video. It moves in a hurry, like a cockroach unlike Drosophila melanogaster that moves and files gently. I also added Drosophila melanogaster (the one with red eye on the left in pic.) from my lab stock with this my alien speies for a comparison. Drosophila melanogaster and this alien whenever meets they behave like fighting dogs.Thanks.
i also capture the balck eye fly in my institute lab. when i was capturing drosophila for my project, i also consider them as drosophia, but they are not drosophila. they belongs to phoridae family and the name megaselia scalaris. i culture them but after some generatio their life cycle got disturbed they are takin 2-2.5 months for their development fom egg to imago. now i do not have the flys but i do have their eegs since a month and their is no development.
I have faced the same problem before, please make sure that it doesn’t mate with drosophila or it lay eggs at the same time. It might cause a messed up fly genetics.
Thank you, Arkajyoti, I was curious, whether they mate with Drosophila and give offspring. Because, they show mating behaviour to Drosophila, it is worth for searching, but I do not think they will give fertile offspring. Must search cytogenetic backround first. best wishes. Selcuk.
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