'Entomologists like Sial enjoy telling people that, left to their own devices for a year, a male fruit fly and a female fruit fly—the latter of which can lay hundreds of eggs during her brief lifetime—could theoretically coat the surface of the planet with their descendants, in a layer dense enough to “fill the space between the Earth and the moon” … twice.'
@cyrilpedia As usual, reading the article requires a subscription. So what is their secret of dealing with the small-winged demons?
@lzvolk I know a lot of drosophila labs that keep fly eating plants.
@cyrilpedia Excellent idea. The entire floor in the dept was infested with Drosophila escapees. I moved to the floor below.
@cyrilpedia I wonder if adding mint leaves might also work. I wish I kept a copy of the poem I wrote, “Ode to the Dead Fruitfly”, when I left the lab. 😏