Drosophila melanogaster

Hameedb, Bayda, Akpinar, Adile & Ceyhanb, Derya İşler, 2022, The web amount and quality of web spiders (Agelenidae, Pholcidae), Agelena labyrinthica (Clerck, 1757) and Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli, 1763), depending on food and temperature, Turkish Journal of Zoology 46 (4), pp. 369-376 : 370

2.1. Drosophila melanogaster cultivation

Drosophila melanogaster were cultivated in laboratory food medium (50 g sugar, 50 g inactivated yeast, 9 g agar, 5 mL propionic acid for 1 L of food) ( Dmitrieva et al., 2019) for the purpose of feeding spiders. The prepared mixture was carefully poured into the bottles that would be used in the experiment to achieve the desired thickness. The bottles’ mouths were sealed with cotton and let cool ( Figure 1 ).

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Figure 1. Cultivation of Drosophila melanogaster.