"White Gold" Wingless D. melanogaster

Detrick105 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 12:03 AM

Just wondering if anyone has worked with them before and what are your thoughts on them. Are they worth the time to culture?
Thanks, Steve

Julio · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 01:09 AM

i been looking for a source of these, i am also interested to see if there is a difference between the color morphs.

Hakkamike · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 01:42 AM

http://www.flyculture.com has them.

Detrick105 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 01:45 AM

Yeah I found them for sale on FlyCulture.com, and I was thinking about ordering some.

Hakkamike · #5 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 02:01 AM

I really have not heard too much about them at all, I did talk to Nate at Jungle Jumpers about his wingless golden delicious this past week on the phone and I am going to try out a culture (he really likes them).

sports_doc · #6 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 04:50 PM

look interesting, although they dont appear wingless?

My experience with wingless [goldens] is that they are very slow producers. OK for supplementing and small collections only.

S

Julio · #7 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 05:08 PM

i got some coming in tomorrow, i will let you guys know how they do in the next few weeks.

Corpus Callosum · #8 (**permalink**) 11-07-2007, 06:51 AM

These are the same as the 'mini white' melanogaster. Shawn, they're winged as you noticed, but produce like wingless.

Julio · #9 (**permalink**) 11-07-2007, 12:33 PM

are you breeding these Mike?

rozdaboff · #10 (**permalink**) 11-07-2007, 01:08 PM

I got some of these (Mini White) from Mike at FrogDay. I have been culturing them for about 3 weeks now. So far - they are not that much different than the wingless golden (golden delicious) that are more readily available. Their production seems to be slightly delayed. In my culture conditions (modified Carolina mix, ~80 F fly cabinet) they seem to bloom about 4-6 days later than my Turkish Gliders (my Turkish Gliders average 12 days to bloom). My golden delicious "bloom" (if you want to call it that) at about the same number of days as my gliders - just much fewer flies.

I did notice that the mini-white bloom of flies was considerably larger than the golden delicious bloom - not quite Turkish Gliders, but respectable. I didn't count flies (in or out) or weigh the output - but it was very obvious in my eyes.

These observations are extremely limited so far - although I will have the next round blooming next week for comparison. It will also take a few rounds of successive culturing to select for the flies that do best on my medium.

These may serve as a partial solution to one of my problems with large-scale culturing - in that the gliders bloom but production drops off within a few days, and by the end of the week - my fly production is low - and I have to wait for the next week's cultures to bloom. I was really trying to avoid setting up cultures twice a week to overcome this. If the mini-white continue to culture in this time frame, their delayed bloom would provide a fresh supply of flies mid-week, even though all cultures were started at the same time.