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<blockquote data-quote="Lycanthrope" data-source="post: 29918" data-attributes="member: 562">Found this on the web, some might find it interesting/helpful. Maggots make great panfish bait, as well as food for reptile pets or birds.-------------------Maggots are the larvae of the common house fly.&nbsp; Contrary to popular belief, you don't need rotten meat to raise them.We&nbsp; used plastic tubs with a 6-7 inch lip without the lid on.&nbsp; Then we&nbsp; mixed one gallon of wheat bran with 1/2 cup of powered milk.&nbsp; We added&nbsp; enough water so that the mixture was moist but not wet enough that water&nbsp; settled out of the mixture.&nbsp; The flies would lay their eggs in this&nbsp; mixture.It took 7 days to produce a crop so we had 7 tubs and&nbsp; kept a rotation going.&nbsp; A gallon of bran would produce about a pint of&nbsp; very clean, disease free maggots.&nbsp; We used a household seeve to harvest&nbsp; the maggots.&nbsp; The must be harvested at the end of 7-8 days or they will&nbsp; become adult flies.-----------------I also found another thread that says you can harvest maggots by mixing with water, the maggots will float to the surface where they can be skimmed off using a strainer....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lycanthrope, post: 29918, member: 562"] Found this on the web, some might find it interesting/helpful. Maggots make great panfish bait, as well as food for reptile pets or birds. ------------------- Maggots are the larvae of the common house fly. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need rotten meat to raise them. We used plastic tubs with a 6-7 inch lip without the lid on. Then we mixed one gallon of wheat bran with 1/2 cup of powered milk. We added enough water so that the mixture was moist but not wet enough that water settled out of the mixture. The flies would lay their eggs in this mixture. It took 7 days to produce a crop so we had 7 tubs and kept a rotation going. A gallon of bran would produce about a pint of very clean, disease free maggots. We used a household seeve to harvest the maggots. The must be harvested at the end of 7-8 days or they will become adult flies. ----------------- I also found another thread that says you can harvest maggots by mixing with water, the maggots will float to the surface where they can be skimmed off using a strainer.... [/QUOTE]

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