I put fruit flies in a jar for a year

This video shows the development of the closed ecosystem in a jar containing fruit flies during a year, depicting various events including plant growth, the emergence of springtails, mites and rotifers and much more!
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[@DragonBreath7575]

I often have fruit fly problems in my home. I make those little plastic bottle traps with apple cider vinegar to get rid of them. But sometimes they get trapped in there and breed. So my little traps end up becoming ecospheres if I leave them too long.

[@derpythecate6842]

I like how self cleaning the jar is, the glass walls started a mess of algae, fly bodies and the dead coffee leaves, and then was eaten by the springtails and decomposed by other organisms in the jar.

[@FriendlyKat]

This is the best example of "Life finds a way."

[@CYDeviant]

Perhaps you could set up multiple versions of the same jar. It would be interesting to see how they might differ over time.

[@SirMrProfessor]

This was definitely one I’ve been eager to see, sad the fruit flies didn’t last longer but neat to see the plants wilt and eventually power through!

[@Emily-ck9ji]

Happy to see you return to uploading. Soon as I saw the notification, I clicked. I hope everything is going well for you. It's great to hear the community was very supportive.

[@iTrapa]

I love the fact that your coffee plant thrived in such environment for a year.

[@geoffreyhhill]

While in grade school, I bred fruit flies in jars with air holes poked through the lid. I was so intrigued by the mutations and evolution happening right in front of me. I even looked at them under a microscope to study the dominant and recessive genes. It was a really cool experience

[@aliceyagami8260]

the process of adaptation of these plants was incredible.

[@davidonfim2381]

Pretty sure that the "rotifers" are a type of copepod. The copepods you usually see are Cyclops, and they live in large bodies of water, but there are lots of other species of copepods. Some of them live in wet soil. Without competition from the typically-aquatic copepods like Cyclops, the soil copepods probably made their way out of the pot and into the water in the jar.

[@tamarrajames3590]

I have missed you, and I hope you are doing well. I always enjoy the way your jars show us that life will find a way. The constant evolution of species within a closed ecosystem reminds me of our World. Life is both fragile and insistent. Your pleasure at the appearance of a new life form in one of your jars is shared by your faithful Jarmy, and your inquisitive mind always makes me think. Thank you.🖤🇨🇦

[@tpmann7166]

I'd be curious to see one of these jars with a little sensor package in it, both to see the readings of different atmospheric conditions and to see if the sensors survive

[@edand69others65]

Thanks to you i made a jar too about a year ago. Its a freshwater ecosystem from a pond in groningen. I caught a water scorpion, but it died after maybe a month. The plants survived for about 4 months, then the algae, detritus worms and snails took over. For a long time no plants were growing until the start of this summer. The algae reduced and made space for these pine-like plants. It produces a lot oxigen judging by the bubbles coming from the algae and plants. It's a very interesting hobby.

[@kainvancalcar585]

Wake up babe, new Life in Jars video just dropped

[@sniperblast]

Something for future projects, try adding a mini magnetic aquarium cleaner inside the ecosystem. You could wipe the algae from a small portion of the glass, giving a clean "window" to view to the plants inside.

[@lichenlad2887]

Idea: at the end you got me thinking. What if you took a pot and filled it with native plants and animals and surrounded the pot with pond water, creating and “island ecosphere” with both a terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem in a jar. This idea seems so cool I may have to try it for myself!

[@heykerryann]

Patience is a virtue, one I do not possess so thank you once again, for doing these “learning jars” that I could never. I hope you are growing like those plants after a little down time 🤗🤗✌️

[@fernandoalbertobitarslim281]

Great video, not exactly for the flies, but to hear from you again, I hope youre in better times now... Cheers my "jarman"... 👍👍👍

[@gatitosanchez7788]

i'm convinced that this guy is one day gonna create life in a jar

[@cryingwolf511]

I loved how you said "those spring tailed babies" around