From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Sun Oct 29 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!Newsmaster From: you@somehost.somedomain (Your Name Here) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: drosophila disease ? Date: 30 Oct 1995 17:15:22 GMT Organization: Your Organization Lines: 6 Message-ID: <47317a$phj@vishnu.jussieu.fr> Reply-To: poinsot@ccr.jussieu.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: catherin.ijm.jussieu.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.4 We have been breeding Drosophila for years on standard medium (corn meal, agar, dry yeast and nipagine). But now adults die and fist instar larva do not enter the medium but stay on the surface and climb on the walls of the vials. No bacterial or fungic contamination, nor mite were detected. Can you help us please? we are loosing our strains! Thank you in advance. .