flies

[tinoess]

hey, i'm wondering is someone here has had this problem before:
There are flies in my fruiting chamber!
(i grow on rice flower cakes, psylocibe cubensis cambodian, and the cakes are in a big plastic box with vermiculite on the floor for humidity)
They're flushing for the second time now but this morning i noticed about
5 tiny flies in the fruiting chamber, 4 of them just sitting on the cakes. They look kinda like drosophilidae flies, but they're black instead of red-ish and they look a lot slimmer. When i tried to get them out they were flying around like they were actually tripping or something, cause they sucked at flying .

However, WHAT THE *** ARE THEY DOING THERE? how did they get there? did someone ever have the same things in their fruiting chamber, does anyone know what kind of flies they are? why they like mushrooms? and if they're harmfull for the mushrooms or me?

help would be much appreciated

 

[GOD]

"hey, i'm wondering is someone here has had this problem before: There are flies in my fruiting chamber! "

Everyone gets them sometime . They are probably eating and / or laying eggs . The reason that they are flying badly could be that they are totaly fucked after laying their eggs , eating or because some ( all ? ) mushrooms give of Co2 . ( Co2 is used in labs to anethsetise / kill flys ) . Once you have them in a culture its hard to get rid of them .

You should get the vacume cleaner and suck them all up several times a day and get some sticky fly papers for inbetween .

 

[tinoess]

thanks,
i'm gonna safely assume they're also not poisonous or anything.
So i can just keep the cakes flushing? cause the presence of
the flies doesn't seem to affect the growth of shrooms, it's a
magical forrest in there right now we even got wildlife

 

[GOD]

People who eat wild mushrooms are not vegetarian , they all contain fly eggs , maggots and / or nematoden . Keeep your eyes open because flys and their larvae can cause and spread bacteria on / in mushrooms .