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Drosophila (/ d r ə ˈ s ɒ f ɪ l ə, d r ɒ-, d r oʊ-/ [1] [2]) is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or pomace flies, vinegar flies, or wine flies, a reference to the characteristic of many species to linger around overripe or rotting fruit.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly – perhaps she'll die! There was an old lady who swallowed a cat; Well, fancy that, she swallowed a cat! She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider ...
I just heard, "swallowed the spider to catch the fly" used as an aphorism, meaning ingesting some kind of harmful substance in order to achieve some ends. It seemed quite clever. Is this a common saying? Could it have predated this song, or is it a relative new saying, or could this have been a coining of the term that I heard.
Armed with a few basic tools, you can rid yourself of fruit flies and begin your new fruit fly-free life. First, you must understand your enemy. Fruit flies live for 8 to 10 days and the females ...
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae.The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less commonly the "vinegar fly", "pomace fly", [a] [5] or "banana fly". [6]
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The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies. [1] Another distantly related family of flies, Tephritidae , are true fruit flies because they are frugivorous, and include apple maggot flies and many pests.
While some people may be more interested in swatting flies than studying them, some of the researchers found aesthetic satisfaction peering at the fruit fly brain, less than 0.04 inches (1 mm) wide.