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| | Fruit Fly - definition of Fruit Fly in Encyclopedia |
 | | This is important for their scientific usefulness as it allows virgin flies to be collected and separated according to sex before they are able to mate, allowing genetic crosses to be studied when they are paired with flies that have other variations. | | | One predator is the orchid mantis which feeds on free living insects, primarily fruit flies. | | | Wild-type flies have reddish pigment cells, which serve to absorb excess blue light so the fly isn't blinded by ambient light. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Fruit_Fly
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| | How to Get Rid of Fruit Flies - Getting Rid of Fruit Flies, Fruit Fly Trap |
| | Fruit flies are small about 1/8-inch in length including the wings. | | | Gentrol Aerosol is an aerosol insect growth regulator to use to kill fruit fly eggs and discourage immature fruit fly development. | | | The fruit fly larvae then crawl to drier areas of the food source or even out of the food source to pupate. |
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http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/fruit_fly.htm
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| | Fruit Fly |
| | Beneficial Nematodes are parasitic on fruit fly and fungus gnat larvae. | | | Fruit flies are attracted to the fruit juice and become trapped when they land to lay eggs. | | | The flies will be attracted by the juice, enter through the holes but cannot find their way out. |
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http://www.happydranch.com/invertebrates/fruitfly.html
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| | fruit fly on Encyclopedia.com |
| | All fruit flies are very small insects that lay their eggs in various plant tissues. | | | Drosophila melanogaster, also called vinegar fly, is a much used laboratory insect; its 10-day life cycle and large chromosomes, particularly those of the salivary glands of the larva, have made it invaluable in the study of genetics. | | | California agriculture officials make plans in case more fruit flies are found. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f1/fruitfly.asp
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| | CMM: The Virtual Electron Microscope - The Queensland Fruit Fly |
| | Fruit can then be protected by covering it or by spraying and baiting flies before the females have a chance to lay eggs in the fruit. | | | This insect is a small fly, a little less than a centimetre in length. | | | Eventually the grubs crawl free of the fruit, jump (spring is more accurate) away from it and bury themselves in the ground where they harden their skin to form an egg-like pupa. |
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http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/fly1.html
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| | Fruit Fly |
| | Fruit flies lay their eggs near the surface of fermenting foods or other moist, organic materials. | | | Drosophila melanogaster is a fruit fly, a little insect about 3mm long, of the kind that accumulates around spoiled fruit. | | | If flies are breeding in these areas, the adults will emerge and be caught in the bag. |
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http://www.the-piedpiper.co.uk/th6h.htm
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| | Fruit Fly Jellyfish |
| | Research in the field of developmental biology has shown that fruit flies contain much of the same basic genetic programming that determines the growth and development of humans from a fertilized egg into a healthy baby. | | | One key protein is non-muscle myosin, a kind of molecular motor that drives changes in cell shape and powers cell movements as a fertilized fly egg grows and develops legs, eyes, wings and all its other body parts. | | | The researchers used GFP to tag the protein, which attaches to the cell's actin cytoskeleton, a meshwork that helps cells keep their shape and migrate from one place to another during the transformation from fertilized egg to adult fly. |
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http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA11/glowfly1097.html
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| | The Olive Fly - control measures, life cycle |
| | The fly lives all of its life stages solely in the olive fruit and emerges as a winged adult in the early spring from unpicked or dropped fruit. | | | Flies are beginning to become sexually active as evidenced by preference to pheromone lure sticky traps vs. plain yellow traps. | | | Flies are in better condition for examination that those glued to a sticky panel trap. |
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http://www.oliveoilsource.com/olive_fly.htm
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| | Queensland Fruit Fly |
| | Fruit fly is widely recognised as the worlds' worst economic pest of fruit and poses significant problems for fruit production in Victoria. | | | Quarantine measures such as inspection of fruit and vegetables entering or leaving areas, assist in preventing the further spread of fruit flies. | | | Following its feed the Flies mate and each female then flies off in search of ripening fruit which she punctures and lays her eggs. |
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http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/dpi/nrenfa.nsf/LinkView/3E0F7753C00E2610CA256CF600066A880CC67C895DBAF56ECA256EF50015A549
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| | fruit fly -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The term fly is commonly used for almost any small flying insect. | | | Brief information on this insecticide, used to control cutworms, silverfish, cockroaches, termites, ants, mosquitoes, flies, and chewing and sucking insects on crops such as cotton, cereal, fruits, corn, and vegetables. | | | In place of the second pair of wings possessed by bees, dragonflies, and many other insects, true flies have club-shaped balancers (halteres). |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9035522
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| | Fruit Fly Care Sheet |
| | Fruit flies can be raised on a variety of fermenting plant materials but using prepared medium is the easiest. | | | Fruit flies are a perfect feeder insect for smaller reptiles or hatchlings such as baby chameleons, frogs, Paroedura Pictus, Bearded Dragons, etc. | | | Six to ten grains per culture is sufficient of the dry yeast. |
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http://www.a1reptiles.com/a1ffcare.html
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| | Life Cycle of the Fruit Fly |
| | Initially the fruit fly appears light in color with a long abdomen and unexpanded wings. | | | After reaching this maturity, the flies are fertile for life. | | | In just a few hours the fly gets darker in color, rounder in the abdomen and extends its wings. |
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http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/bi/1994/life_cycle.html
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| | Vinegar Flies, HYG-2109-97 |
| | Experiments with radiation-induced mutations in these flies led to the successful discovery of the sterile-male technique for insect control, especially the screwworm and certain other fruit flies. | | | Some species are attracted to human and animal excrement, also feeding on fruits and uncooked foods, serving as a disease carrier. | | | Female flies lay about 500 eggs (up to 2,000 eggs) singly near the surface of moist, fermenting food material such as overripe fruit, rotten vegetables, dirty garbage containers, slime in drains and waste materials. |
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http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2109.html
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| | A Better Fruit Fly Trap |
| | ARS efforts to prevent establishment of medfly, as well as all other fruit flies, have led to development of a new, recently patented trapping system that will help fruit growers control this formidable pest. | | | The three chemicals lure the flies into the trap, where they are enticed to feed on a panel that contains a feeding stimulant and toxicant. | | | A newer version of the trap uses a combination of chemical and visual stimuli to attract and trap the fruit flies. |
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http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may01/fly0501.htm
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| | Mediterranean fruit fly - Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann) |
| | As a Mediterranean fruit fly infestation falls under the control of Florida's regulatory agency - the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and its Division of Plant Industry, there are no University of Florida management recommendations. | | | Although it may be a major pest of citrus, often it is a more serious pest of some deciduous fruits, such as peach, pear, and apple. | | | Because of its wide distribution over the world, its ability to tolerate cooler climates better than most other species of tropical fruit flies, and its wide range of hosts, it is ranked first among economically important fruit fly species. |
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http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/fruit/mediterranean_fruit_fly.htm
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| | UC Management Guidelines for Vinegar Fly on Strawberry |
| | Because this fruit is allowed to ripen in the field to allow easy removal of the calyx and core of the strawberry during picking, the harvest interval is increased and the fruit becomes more susceptible to infestation. | | | Adult flies are most active in the early morning and late afternoon; this is also the time they will have greater exposure to an insecticide application. | | | Identify and try to clean up external sources of flies such as cull piles of strawberries or other rotting fruit and nearby citrus groves where old fruit may be on the ground. |
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http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r734301411.html
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| | Fruit Fly Control |
| | In stored grain insects and fruit flies it kills them in the pupal stage. | | | A stored grain insect trap when you use lures with the glue board, and as a fruit fly trap. | | | Gentrol aerosol is an I.G.R. (Insect Growth Regulator) now labeled for fruit flies.It interrupts the life cycle of a variety of insects. |
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http://www.scapest.com/fruit-fly-control.html
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| | Fruit Fly Genetics |
| | It is a fact of life that female fruit flies can mate with more than one male and store sperm from multiple matings. | | | Ensure that fly food remains moist at all times. | | | mites that eat eggs, mites that eat fly food, and mites that feed off of adult flies (see the attached figures of various mites). |
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http://www.hhmi.swmed.edu/Labs/rr/world/fly.html
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| | FRUIT FLIES SPEAK UP |
| | "It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists have been breeding fruit flies for sixty years or more in labs all round the world—flies which produce a new generation every eleven days—they have never yet seen the emergence of a new species or even a new enzyme."—*Gordon R. | | | "The clear-cut mutants of Drosophila, with which so much of the classical research in genetics were done, are almost without exception inferior to wild-type flies in viability, fertility, longevity."—*Theodosius Dobzhansky, Heredity and the Nature of Man (1964), p. | | | Each of its offspring matures in a few days, and the generations multiply rapidly. |
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http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/10mut10.htm
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| | So the first task of the cryobiologists was to make fruit fly cells permeable by dissolving the waxes on the embryo membranes. | | | Incredibly, the frozen fruit fly embryos are among the most complex organisms preserved by cryobiologists. | | | Geneticists like them because they have a life span of only 10 days, are easy to culture in the laboratory, and carry a small number of chromosomes, some of which are large and easily visible in the microscope at the larval stage. |
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http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-1/net1026.html
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| | Living Things: Daily Living Activity 1 |
| | It may take a few days, but the fruit flies will be attracted to your jar. | | | The fruit flies should begin to lay eggs in the banana within a few days. | | | *Note: If you don't have fruit flies available in your classroom lab materials, you can "catch" some by placing your glass jar (with the banana in it) near a source, like garbage cans. |
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http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/living/livact1.html
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| | 2-Liter Bottle - Science Museum of Minnesota |
| | Use your fruit fly colony to feed a spider or praying mantis living in a Predator-Prey Column. | | | Watch for the different stages - eggs, larvae, pupae, fruit fly. | | | What other types of food are fruit flies attracted to? |
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http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/t/2literbottle/2literbottle.html
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| | Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) Behavior |
| | Many fruit flies mate on their host plants, but mating tactics vary, even within some species. | | | Other fruit flies with banded wings and/or spotted abdomens may be jumping spider mimics (Hasson 1995). | | | Adults of many species, especially those that are univoltine and/or narrowly host specific, may spend most of their life on one plant or adjacent plants of the same species. |
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http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/diptera/tephriti/TephBehv.htm
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| | CARIBBEAN FRUIT FLY |
| | This insect is a serious pest of many kinds of fruit. | | | Studies conducted by USDA's Agricultural Research Service have been interpreted as demonstrating that this fruit is not a host for Caribbean fruit fly in Florida. | | | Master Permit No. QC 222 has been issued to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) to authorize Florida firms to ship citrus fruit (grapefruit, orange, and tangerine only), grown in Florida in areas certified free of Caribbean fruit fly, by said Florida Department, to California without fumigation or cold treatment. |
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http://pi.cdfa.ca.gov/pqm/manual/htm/303.htm
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| | Tephritidae (Diptera) Main Page |
| | Fruit flies (Tephritidae) are the most agriculturally important family of flies. | | | This site includes an interactive program for the identification of adults and larvae of pest species of fruit flies that you may download. | | | Use the links in the Quick SELector or the simplified Table of Contents below it to access other pages. |
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http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/tephriti/tephriti.htm
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| | Fruit Fly Information and Control |
| | The adult fly is about an eighth of an inch long including wings with red eyes and tan colored abdomen and thorax. | | | They mate more than once and deposit an egg mass of about 500 eggs on or near a food source.Fruit flies undergo complete metamorphosis. | | | Aerosols such as Gentrol interrupt their life cycle by killing them in the pupal stage, thus eliminating future insects. |
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http://www.scapest.com/fruit-fly.html
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| | Fly Lab |
| | If your knowledge of Genetics is minimal you may want to take a look at the Genetics info in BIO 113 before beginning the Virtual Fly Lab. | | | These are common mutant phrnotypes, variations in wing size. | | | These mutations create phenotypic changes in; body color, antennae shape, eye color, eye shape, wing size, wing shape, wing vein structure, wing angle and many other features. |
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http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/Biol114/Vfly1.asp
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| | Fruit Fly Pests, offered through ACTRON Flying Insect Control Specialists. |
| | With huge losses experienced annually from fruit fly devastation, information on these high-profile insects is important to commercial fruit and vegetable growers, marketing exporters, government regulatory agencies, and the scientific community. | | | Fruit Fly Pests, offered through ACTRON Flying Insect Control Specialists. | | | Fruit Fly Larval Mortality from Thermal Treatments Varies with Substrate Type, James D. Hansen |
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http://www.actroninc.com/bkfruitf.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Archive Search |
| | In other words, populations were not genetically uniform, but differed from place to place. | | | The chromosomes inside the fruit fly's salivary glands are huge - a thousand times thicker than normal. | | | Fruit fly genetics made evolution and the origin of species more credible to a once sceptical scientific community. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4161281,00.html
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| | Discovery Online, The Skinny On ... Where Fruit Flies Come From |
| | Because they're slow to anticipate treachery, for instance, fruit flies are easy to trap. | | | Until about 100 years ago, people were innocent of the concept of a fly's life-cycle, wherein it is obliged to pass through various stages from egg to larva to adult. | | | I later saw his laboratory, and while I would have sided with his neighbors, it turns out fruit flies are wild animals. |
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http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon970718/skinny1.html
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| | Three Bacterial Genomes Found Lurking Inside Recently Sequenced Fruit Fly Genomes |
| | But species of Wolbachia live inside a wide variety of insects, spiders, and crustaceans and have beneficial as well as deleterious effects, Eisen said. | | | Wolbachia made headlines a year ago with the publication of the genome sequence of the species Wolbachia pipientis, which lives inside the reproductive cells of the laboratory fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. | | | A sketch of the widespread fruit fly Drosophila ananassae, a relative of the common laboratory fruit fly D. melanogaster. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050309130252.htm
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Fruit fly gene success |
| | Fruit flies share nearly 60% of human genes and are studied by thousands of scientists around the world. | | | The reason is that fruit flies and humans use the same or similar genes to develop into adults. | | | "Fruit flies are studied by thousands of scientists around the world" |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/washington_2000/newsid_647000/647139.stm
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| | MicroAngela - Fruit Fly |
| | Two families of flies are called fruit flies; larger flies with colorful wing patterns, and the smaller vinegar flies in the family Drosophilidae, which are those used in genetic studies. | | | Flies usually have large compound eyes, which help them to see well and in many directions at once. | | | The head of this fly is about 1 mm across. |
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http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/bemf/microangela/dros.htm
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| | Pacifly Home Page |
| | Profile of Pest Fruit Fly Species in the Pacific | | | Samoa exports Breadfruit to New Zealand: Fresh Breadfruit exports to New Zealand using High Temperature Forced Air (HTFA) treatment commenced on 2nd October 2004. | | | Pacific fruit fly surveillance program: The fruit fly surveillance program in the Pacific involves establishing fruit fly trap sites in high risk areas, maintenance and servicing of trap sites, regular clearance of traps, documentation and reporting. |
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http://www.spc.org.nc/pacifly
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| | The Raw Story Fruit flies |
| | A previously heterosexual fruit fly suddenly began performing the mating ritual as if she were a male. | | | The new fruit fly study, therefore, demonstrates unequivocally that there is a causal link between the gene and the sexual identity of the fruit fly. | | | In other words, some people argue that the different brain activity is caused by a man’s choice to be homosexual, rather than the different brain activity causing a man to be homosexual. |
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http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/dara/fruit_flies_060605.htm
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| | Drosophila melanogaster @ NCBI |
| | The assembled and annotated genome sequence of the euchromatic arms of the five Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) chromosomes is now available in GenBank. | | | The sequence, determined in a collaboration between Celera and the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, is described in the March 24, 2000 issue of Science. | | | Protein ID Enter the ID (accession or gi number) of a protein from any organism to view matches to Drosophila genome sequence proteins |
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PMGifs/Genomes/7227.html
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| | BDGP: Home |
| | Search sequence for splice sites, possible genes, etc. | | | Request genomic or cDNA clones, library filters or fly stocks | | | Sequence data sets and annotations in fasta or xml format by http or ftp |
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http://www.fruitfly.org
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