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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Sleeping fruit flies, may someday offer clues to sleep disorders and mechanisms in humans.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Fruit flies are primarily a sanitation problem and we will need to inspect the causes and evaluate.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Olive fruit flies develop inside olive fruit, making the olives unsuitable for canning or for olive oil production.
Fruit flies are attracted to and breed in fermenting materials like ripening fruits and vegetables, beer and cider.
These flies are usually cultured in some sort of bottle into which a fruit fly medium, with a sprinkle of dry yeast, has been placed.
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Tony Howell,
Skateboarder
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Fruit flies aren't harmful, but they are a nuisance, and a very common problem with worm bins.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Recombination in fruit flies can be suppressed, and given a laboratory strain with the right visible markers it is relatively simple to follow the assortment of chromosomes in a three generation cross.
Fruit flies ( Drosophila ) are one of the more common animals used to study genetics.
The situation is not unlike a geneticist using fruit flies as convenient models for genetic systems as a whole.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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Flightless fruit flies have generally become the staple food for feeding small reptiles, amphibians, and spiders.
The flightless fruit flies will automatically breed and lay eggs in the blue substrate that also serves as their food and water source.
Drosophilidae (fruit flies) are members of the Cyclorrapha suborder, they are only known in the fossil record from amber along with Phoridae flies they are very rare in amber.
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