Thu 13 Jul 2006
Fruitflies don’t like fruit
Posted by David under geek, pass alongs
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Ha! I was right! For years I’ve been voicing my hypothesis that fruit flies don’t really like fruit, they like microorganisms that eat fruit. My hypothesis for this was the fact that very fresh, unbruised fruit doesn’t seem to attract fruit flies, but rotten fruit, wine, and even vinegar does. Well, WFIU’s *A Moment of Science* agrees, and presumably the scientists who deduced this know more about this stuff than I do. :)
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August 16th, 2007 at 2:19 pm[...] expert concurrence with theories that I’ve developed on my own. Last year they confirmed that fruit flies don’t really like fruit. And now, about [...]
July 14th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Ok, that’s good – but how DO WE KILL THEM?
July 19th, 2006 at 6:06 pm
AHAHAHAAH (coment to what Michael wrote)
August 23rd, 2006 at 7:33 pm
And we aren’t allergic to dust, I’m told, nor to dust mites, but to their shit. What a world!