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  2. Fruit flies in space - Wikipedia

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    Fruit flies in space. Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has been used to study the effects of spaceflight on living organisms. On a July 9, 1946, suborbital V-2 rocket flight, fruit flies became the first living and sentient organisms to go to space, and on February 20, 1947, fruit flies safely returned from a suborbital space ...

  3. Flightless fruit fly - Wikipedia

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    Flightless fruit fly. Flightless fruit flies ( Order Diptera) encompass a variety of different species of fly, such as Drosophila melanogaster, Bactrocera cucurbitae, Bactrocera dorsalis, and Drosophila hydei, with genetic mutations that cause them to be flightless. [1] These genetic mutations may have different results such as the development ...

  4. Tephritidae - Wikipedia

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    Tephritidae morphology. Tephritids are small to medium-sized (2.5–10 mm) flies that are often colourful, and usually with pictured wings, the subcostal vein curving forward at a right angle. The head is hemispherical and usually short. The face is vertical or retreating and the frons is broad.

  5. Drosophila melanogaster - Wikipedia

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    Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (an insect of the order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less commonly the " vinegar fly", " pomace fly", [ a][ 5] or " banana fly". [ 6] In the wild, D. melanogaster are attracted to rotting fruit and fermenting beverages ...

  6. Drosophilidae - Wikipedia

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    Drosophilidae. The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies. [ 1] Another distantly related family of flies, Tephritidae, are true fruit flies because they are frugivorous, and include apple maggot flies and many ...

  7. Phoridae - Wikipedia

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    The Phoridae are a family of small, hump-backed flies resembling fruit flies. Phorid flies can often be identified by their escape habit of running rapidly across a surface rather than taking to the wing. This behaviour is a source of one of their alternate names, scuttle fly. Another vernacular name, coffin fly, refers to Conicera tibialis. [1]

  8. Drosophila suzukii - Wikipedia

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    Drosophila suzukii. Drosophila suzukii, commonly called the spotted wing drosophila or SWD, is a fruit fly. D. suzukii, originally from southeast Asia, is becoming a major pest species in America and Europe, because it infests fruit early during the ripening stage, in contrast with other Drosophila species that infest only rotting fruit. [ 2]

  9. Anastrepha ludens - Wikipedia

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    Anastrepha ludens on their preferred orange fruit habitat. The bottom right fly is a female as identified by long ovipositor. The fly in the middle of image is male. Anastrepha ludens, the Mexican fruit fly or Mexfly, [1] is a species of fly of the Anastrepha genus in the Tephritidae family (fruit flies). It is closely related to the Caribbean ...

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