Re: OT do fruit flies have a mommy and daddy?

so you are saying they were in the kitchen and the apples are a coincidence?


"KIMOSABE" <kimosabe126@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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They go from from egg to adult in 7 to 10 days or so. If they were
real fruit flies (Drosophilia) then somewhere in your kitchen were
some pupae waiting to emerge. Perhaps under the rim of your garbage
can.


http://www.ceolas.org/fly/intro.html
Life cycle of Drosophila

The drosophila egg is about half a millimeter long. It takes about one
day after fertilisation for the embryo to develop and hatch into a
worm-like larva. The larva eats and grows continuously, moulting one
day, two days, and four days after hatching (first, second and third
instars). After two days as a third instar larva, it moults one more
time to form an immobile pupa. Over the next four days, the body is
completely remodelled to give the adult winged form, which then
hatches from the pupal case and is fertile within about 12 hours.
(timing is for 25°C; at 18°, development takes twice as long.)


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