Fruit Fly Excelsior Culture Bedding – Natural Wood Fiber for Fruit Fly Cultures & Nesting Material

Create healthier, more productive fruit fly cultures with Fruit Fly Excelsior Culture Bedding. Made from natural, stringy wood fibers, excelsior provides an ideal climbing and pupation surface for fruit flies while improving airflow throughout the culture container.

Unlike coffee filters, excelsior offers significantly more surface area, allowing adult flies to move freely and larvae to crawl out of the media to pupate successfully. It also doubles as an excellent natural nesting material for birds, hamsters, mice, and other small animals.

Each bag contains enough excelsior to prepare approximately 5–7 large fruit fly cultures, making it a convenient and economical choice for hobbyists and breeders alike.

Key Features

• Natural stringy wood fiber excelsior
• Ideal culture bedding for fruit flies
• Increases usable surface area inside cultures
• Improves ventilation compared to coffee filters
• Provides pupation sites for larvae
• Encourages healthier, more productive cultures
• Also suitable as nesting material for birds and small animals
• Easy to use and long-lasting

Ideal For

• Drosophila melanogaster cultures
• Drosophila hydei cultures
• Dart frog keepers
• Jumping spider keepers
• Praying mantises
• Small reptiles and amphibians that feed on fruit flies
• Bird nesting material
• Small mammals such as hamsters, mice, and gerbils

Package Contents

• Enough excelsior to prepare approximately 5–7 large fruit fly cultures

Directions

Place a generous amount of excelsior into each fruit fly culture container after adding the culture media. The excelsior provides climbing surfaces for adult flies, improves air circulation, and offers ideal locations for larvae to pupate.

Whether you're breeding feeder insects for reptiles and amphibians or maintaining cultures for invertebrates, Fruit Fly Excelsior Culture Bedding helps produce healthier, more productive fruit fly colonies with minimal effort.