How are fruit flies created?

Fruit flies need very little to call your kitchen their “home, sweet home.” All that they require is a moist area of fermenting stuff. That stuff can be ripened fruits or vegetables, as well as drains, garbage disposals, empty bottles and cans, trash bags, or cleaning rags and mops. read more

Because the flies are so teeny, they can sneak into houses as adults through window and door screens or on fruit as larvae. To keep flies out of your kitchen, University of Kentucky entomologists recommend building a homemade flytrap. Roll a paper funnel into a jar. Pour a few ounces of cider vinegar into the jar, or put a ripe, peeled banana in it. read more

Fruit flies have been a source of fuel for the creation versus evolution debate. Creationists, who generally oppose the widely accepted theory of evolution, claim that the use of these insects in the laboratory, specifically the attempt to create new species through the mutation of chromosomes, has yielded no surviving results. read more