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tired-spacewitch · 2 years

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I wanted to try something different with my favorite fruit flies and Lady D

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ms-scarletwings · 1 month

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Never thought I would see a fly rocking a double mohawk before

Not exactly sure what this beaut is, but Strauzia genus was about as satisfactory as I did narrow it down.

#insects #bug photography #yellow fruit fly #bugs #flies #cute bugs #fruit flies #strauzia #mah pics #:D

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wolf-pearl · 2 years

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Ok so I'm taking a genetics class right now and in lab we've been given fruit flies with different mutations that we need to breed over the course of the semester.

Now, first thing I learned: fruit flies don't eat fruit. They eat yeast. They eat the yeast on fermenting fruit. They can not actually eat fruit. Their name is a lie.

Secondly, one of the two mutant lines I was given to cross are flies with the apterous mutation, aka they're wingless. I feel so bad for them, they can't do the one thing they're named for, they cant fly.

And then I realized. My fruit flies are in truth insects that eat yeast and can't fly.

Anyways, I've been calling them my yeast crawls and I am their god now.

#genetics #laboratory #fruit flies #fruit fly #yeast crawls #college #bug cw #bug tw #insect tw

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ljsbugblog · 4 months

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No common name (Spathulina acroleuca).

#ljsbugblog #bugblr #entomology #macro #insects #diptera #flies #tephritidae #fruit flies #spathulina #spathulina acroleuca

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corvology · 8 months

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the taxonomy section of the wikipedia article about things named after tolkien and his works is insane.

loving the crazy ass scientists who named an absurd amount of grass-miner moths after tolkien characters. there’s a STUPID amount of elves btw.

also,

there’s more. would you still love them if they were worms….

there’s way more including Shrimp Baggins Family, a bunch of attempts (some successful some not) to name wasps after elves, dwarves and hobbits and like one amoeba named after gimli but honestly just go look at it yourselves it’s SO funny

#arya talks #ohh the biologist in me is cackling this is hilarious #also in fruit flies the gene named smaug & the gene degrading it called bard…. absolutely hysterical.#jrr tolkien #the lord of the rings #the hobbit #the silmarillion #moths #worms #i’m not tagging every character sorry #taxonomy

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belle--ofthebrawl · 5 months

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I like the idea of the drummers before Mountain all being ghoulettes just so he can be their tall strange son and I don't mean that in an "all female characters are mommy" type of way I mean that in a "Thor is the god of lesbians" kind of way.

#does that make sense #he attracts wlw like fruit flies you could write a book about it.#ha. fruit flies.

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futurebird · 3 months

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Sisters bond over fruit fly murder

Big sister...

... little sister ...

Work together....

... and catch their dinner!

Took these photos today of my nicos. Look at their little hairs and big eyes. This colony is a lot of trouble but I love them.

#ants #antposting #bugblr #bugs #insects #invertebrates #myrmecology #antkeeping #ant #antblr #camponotus #Camponotus nicobarensis #fruit flies #flies #hunting ants #ant violence

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taxonomytournament · 2 months

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Taxonomy Tournament: Insects

Diptera. This order, known as the true flies, is made up of insects that fly using onle a single pair of wings. Members inclue fruit flies, houseflies, and mosquitos

Lepidoptera. This order is made up of butterflies and moths. It is the second largest order (behind beetles) making up 10% of all described species of living things. They have large triangular wings and a proboscis for siphoning nectar.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #flies #fruit flies #mosquitos #arthropods #insects #ecdytes #butterflies #moths #Diptera #Lepidoptera #0x1dv0x62

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hazel2468 · 4 months

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Well guys, I have an announcement!

Everyone, meet Reaper!

He's a Phyllocrania Paradoxa- a Ghost Mantis, and I fucking adore him!

He seems very lively, but very okay with being handled. I'm obviously not going to be handling him a lot, but he walked right out onto my hand when I got him from his little travel cup, and he decided he would rather take a drink of a little water drop off my finger than off of his leaf!

I tossed a pair of fruit flies into his enclosure, and he spent about ten minutes stalking one before snatching it up and munching on it. Ate the whole thing really quick- he was hungry! If he doesn't catch the other, I'll make sure he gets another one either today or tomorrow (the other one might have gotten lucky and escaped, not sure, if it did, well, good for it).

#bugblr #praying mantis #cw bug #bug pic #i am in LOVE oh my lanta #he's so TEENY TINY #unsure exactly what instar he is but the seller says he is male #and based on the crest and abdomen I think that is correct #right now he's just chilling post-meal in his new home and i am #SO happy!#and yeah... yeah I'm getting a fucking jumping spider too #i have a whole fruit fly culture he won't eat all of that himself #plus when he gets larger he'll be moving on to house flies so #spooder it is!#and if anyone is wondering #I ordered him from #The Bugg Plug #they were FANTASTIC #there were some weather issues and FedEx shipping was a mess #and they kept me super up to date and posted about it as well so I knew what was going on #they were very very quick to answer my questions and resolved an issue with my tracking number like in five minutes #i will 100% be ordering other bugs from them in the future

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uncharismatic-fauna · 4 months

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Ever notice how fruit flies often seem to appear from thin air? The truth is, they probably were there all along! Fruit fly eggs are so small, they can't be seen with the naked eye-- less than 0.5 mm (0.02 inches) in length!

(Image: Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) eggs under a microscope by Lisa Kadlec)

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Fruit flies have been used extensively in many different fields of research because they're easy to breed and take care of. Because of this, we now have extensive video documentation of their development process, from the moment their eggs is laid right up until it hatches!

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#common fruit fly #Diptera #Drosophilidae #fruit flies #flies #insects #arthropods #uncharismatic facts #Youtube

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tired-spacewitch · 2 years

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I just had a cute thought about the fruit flies cuddling during winter, and yes Cass is in bee pjs. Not pictured is Alcina melting from the cuteness.

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ackee · 4 months

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hey new followers. lets look at the description of this blog. do you see the 18+? i see it! now let's look at the pinned post. oh wow, it seems the owner of this blog doesnt want minors on it! so nice she put it twice! now can you find and click the unfollow button? very good!

#txt #like omg.. i feel like im fending off fruit flies from my dinner rn #just minor after minor following can we mayhaps READ #🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞🔞

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bpod-bpod · 1 month

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Nervous System Shapers

Identifying the genes that regulate the shaping and maintenance of the fruit fly central nervous system – insight for possible roles for homologous genes in mammals

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Haluk Lacin and Yuqing Zhu, and colleagues

Division of Biological and Biomedical Systems, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in bioRxiv, February 2024 (not peer reviewed)

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#science #biomedicine #immunofluorescence #biology #drosophila #fruit flies #genes #central nervous system

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ljsbugblog · 3 months

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