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Anastrepha ludens, the Mexican fruit fly or Mexfly, [1] is a species of fly of the Anastrepha genus in the Tephritidae family (fruit flies). It is closely related to the Caribbean fruit fly Anastrepha suspensa , and the papaya fruit fly Anastrepha curvicauda .
An adult fruit fly is a strong flier that's been known to travel 30 miles in search of food and sites to lay eggs, giving it the ability to infest new areas quickly, according to the food and ...
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]
Additionally, fruit flies gravitate toward sugar substances like soda, fruit juice and candy. Fermentation: Similarly, fruit flies are often attracted to the smell of fermented foods and drinks ...
The larvae of the green bottle fly (Lucilia fly) are now used exclusively for this purpose, since they preferentially devour only necrotic tissue, leaving healthy tissue intact. This is an important distinction, as most other major varieties of myiasitic fly larvae attack both live and dead wound tissue indiscriminately, effectively negating ...
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.
The point of the example is that the correct parsing of the second sentence, "fruit flies like a banana", is not the one that the reader starts to build, by assuming that "fruit" is a noun (the subject), "flies" is the main verb, and "like" as a preposition. The reader only discovers that the parsing is incorrect when it gets to the "banana".
The discovery of 20 invasive Tau fruit flies prompted quarantine of produce of a neighborhood in Los Angeles County, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced.