One week would be the life span of a fruit fly
The average natural life span of fruit fly adults in optimal temperatures is 40 to 50 days
@jaikishan They are also very good at surviving without oxygen. If humans don’t receive oxygen , they can die within a few minutes, but almost all insects can survive without oxygen for many hours.
@ipakakkar The average natural life span of fruit fly adults in optimal temperatures is 40 to 50 days.
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The average natural life span of fruit fly adults in optimal temperatures is 40 to 50 days. Female fruit flies are capable of mating and laying several batches of eggs in that time, allowing the fruit fly population to multiply quickly.
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They cannot fly in vacuum but they can survive in vacuum
What is vinegar? Why should fruit fly be attracted to it? Why not to use some simple thing ?
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vinegar is acetic acid
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Acid😵 wont the fruit fly will be crazy to get attracted towards acid?
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Fruit flies are attracted to vinegar because it has a pungent and sweet odour
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The following link guides us througha experiment which will help us to study the life cycle of a fruit fly.
Please share the reference?
Are you sure 50 days, such long time.
How do we design an experiment to prove or disprove it?
Please share the part which do you want us to see in that link? Please also give your explanation
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Materials
- Overripe banana/any other rotting fruit
- One bottle/jar
- Large rubber band
- Magnifying glass or dissecting microscope
- Wingless fruit fly culture
Procedure
- Peel the banana/ Apple and place it in an uncapped jar outside.
- In a couple hours, we should find tiny fruit flies crawling around the fruit.Cover the jar with a paper towel.
- We secure the paper towel with a rubber band.
- Using the magnifying glass, we try to observe fruit flies and try to identify the males and females.
- Keeping the paper towel secure, we observe the fruit flies for a few days using the magnifying glass.
Results
At first, we might notice tiny white wet specks on the banana surface. These are the eggs that the fruit flies laid. After a couple days, we might notice little white wormlike creatures on the surface of the banana. Since fruit flies are still flies, these cute little white worms are called maggots.
These maggots keep themselves busy eating tunnels through the banana all day and night. Four or five days later, the maggots will attach themselves to the inner walls of the jar, forming structures that look like large rice grains, which darken after a couple days. About ten days later, tiny flies should emerge from the banana. If the decomposing banana is not grossing your family out, you can observe how this generation of flies mates and lays eggs, repeating the life cycle.
This is because Fruit flies are insects, and like all insects, they go through distinct live stages. The fruit flies you captured laid eggs, and those white wiggly maggots you observed are the second stage of fruit fly development, called larvae , just like caterpillars are the larval stage of butterflies and moths. Those little specks were the third stage in the fruit fly life cycle, called pupae The specks darkened as the flies’ legs, wings, and heads developed.
( We breathe because oxygen is needed to burn the fuel [sugars and fatty acids] in our cells to produce energy.) ( Oxygen is brought into the lungs via breathing, where it is transported by red blood cells to the entire body to be used to produce energy.
Fruit flies respires through spricles and they can hold their oxygen to survive without oxygen for long hours.
a glass cage that opens from the top only and we can manually close it when we find enough fruit fly …we have to put some waste material inside the glass cage so that fruit fly could smell the waste and we could easily trap it …
CAN WE DO THIS IDEA TO TRAP FRUIT FLY ?
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Q… What is the fastest way to get rid of fruit flies?
Fruit fly and its lifecycle
@jaikishan
I referred to this site https://www.orkin.com/flies/fruit-fly/life-span-of-fruit-fly
@ipakakkar
Trap 1
This fruit fly trap uses a non-toxic solution to lure gnats to their doom. Place the traps near the gnat-infested area and wait till they are filled with dead flies. Each trap can be used for up to 30 days and can be thrown straight into the trash can.
Trap 2
This disposable and non-toxic liquid attractant will quickly trap and eliminate the fruit flies and gnats that linger in your kitchen, bathrooms, and other areas of the household that are prone to pests. All you have to do is to twist off the cap to activate this fruit fly trap.
Trap 3
This drain treatment product is what you need if you feel like the source of the fruit flies and gnats are the drains in the kitchen and bathroom. The active ingredient of this gel is citronella, a natural bug repellent