Temperature Update #2

The pod was checked at 1pm today.

The temperature of the pod during the last 24 hours had a maximum of 22.5C and a minimum of 19.4C. Not great. And the maggots were clearly more dormant. Looks like Rylo and I will have to bust out our thinking caps and scheme up a way to make sure the temperature stays much higher.

But there is better news from today. In the pupa or 'crawl-off' bucket, we found 16 females and 49 males. Pretty good odds for the ladies. They'll be able to choose which guy suits their fancy. And hopefully this means we'll be seeing some eggs in the next few weeks! And hopefully these eggs will be laid in the pod, as the female adults will be attracted back to the pod by the synonome created by the maggots. (But as I've said before, I plan on doing an entire post on what exactly a synonome is, and how if differs from a pheremone).

With a couple thousand maggots, we can expect a steady supply of pupa/crawl-offs.

Hopefully I'll have more good news to report in the next few days to come . .