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The subject sound strange, but it's the case. These Diptera larvae are sold in pet shops for feed reptiles, etc and in sport shops for fishing. I never saw it in the wild. I caught them in a house of a friend that breed reptiles, for feed my Libelloides larvae. Each larva sizes about 7-8 mm and now I have all in pupae. I'm waiting the born of the adults.

Someone can help me to ID?







Thanks

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I think some sarcophagid species are reared for this purpose. The red colour comes from an artificial dye in the food; it is not a natural property of the species.

If you use the larvae as food for pets, you should probably buy white, ie. uncoloured larvae.

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I've seen them sold for fishing bait, and they can be coloured yellow, green, blue and even flourescent colours too. They also come in various flavours - aniseed, vanilla, caramel - yum, yum! :p
Most of the ones I've seen have been Calliphora, rather than Sarcophaga.

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Ohhhhhh :|:o

I think that the striking colour are natural to the species... but I would like to see fluorescent larvae :o:o:o

The pupae are slighly smaller than the ones that I've seen from Calliphora. I wait the adult born... and then I could identify...

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go to a cave, Isidro... you will see lots of fluorescent larvae. :D:D:D

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The first fly was born. So, I have Lucilia larvae.

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to eat? Bueno.. bueno.. :) Que aproveche la cena. :D

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sarcophagids dont tend to produce enough offspring to be "comercially viable" it tends to be calliphorids, i wouldnt recomend them as myasis is a very real possiblity!