Drosophila Specimens
Live Fruit Flies (Drosophila)
The Widest Selection of Drosophila for Every Application, All in One Place
Whether you're feeding your classroom pets or studying sex-linked, recessive, and dominant trait mutations and life cycles with your students, Drosophila are widely applicable for a variety of classroom applications. Ward's Science carries the widest selection of Drosophila to meet your needs.
About Drosophila: Drosophila, or fruit flies, express a number of mutations such as eye, wing, and body mutations, and are widely used in genetic studies. Drosophila demonstrate complete metamorphosis with egg. larva, pupa, and adult stages in its life cycle. Drosophila also make an excellent live food for mantises, small reptiles and amphibians.
Shipping and Care Information:
- Cultures are shipped in with drosophila medium in a shatterproof vial.
- The pupae will usually appear within ten days of the ship date.
- During very cold weather, adult flies may die but eggs and larvae usually survive. Allow cultures to come to room temperature before checking under low magnification and live larvae.
For easy caring and handling of your Drosophila, use our Drosophila Culture Guides:
| Type | Description |
| Wild Type Flies | Wild type flies, including males and virgin females |
| Chromosome I Mutants | Apricot (a), Bar (B), Forked (f), Miniature (m), Ruby (rb), Vermilion (v), White (w), Yellow (y) and more. |
| Chromosome II Mutants | Apterous (ap), Black (b), Brown (bw), Dumpy (dp), Lobe (L), Vestigial (vg) and more |
| Chromosome III Mutants | Antennapedia (Antp), Ebony (e), Scarlet (st), Sepia (se), and Sepia-Ebony (se:e) |
| Chromosome IV Mutants | Eyeless (ey) and Polished (pol) |
| F1 Crosses | F1 crossed as well as custom fly crosses available |
| Standard Crosses | Three day lead time required on standard crosses |
| Fruit Fly Sets | Sets come with cultures so crossing can be performed by students in the classroom |
| Drosophila Species | Description |
| Drosophila virillis | Large species, excellent for salivary gland chromosome squashes. 10-day advance notice required for larvae. |
| Drosophila mojavensis | Long life cycle, great for population studies |
| Drosophila hydei | Giant flightless fruit fly |