Earthlings don’t eat Earth either. They’re still Earthlings.
Sperm whales don’t eat sperm.
Mayflies don’t eat May or any other month.
Fruit Flies
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
W wait a s second! What do sperm wales eat? Have I been pointlessly jacking off into the ocean for decades??
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
No, you’ve been keeping the salinity high.
Thank you for your service.
DesolateMood@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Earthlings don’t eat earth because “earth” isn’t something to be eaten. Sperm whales don’t eat sperm because sperm is (usually) not something to be eaten.
Fruit, however, is supposed to be eaten, and by many, many animals. By calling something a fruit fly, the expectation for most people would be that its diet consists mainly of fruit
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Or ya know, that they’re usually found hanging around near fruit.
ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 4 weeks ago
Speak for yourself, I rather like potatoes, or as the French call them ‘pomme de terre’ which if I recall would literally translate as ‘apple of earth’.
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Wtf do earthlings eat other than earth? Plants, animals & fungus are all parts of Earth TO BE EATEN
By other animals or fungus.
Sabata11792@ani.social 4 weeks ago
I wish I had the time and money to create crimes against nature.
psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Don’t you drive a car?
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s not like they built the car, though.
sibannac@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The trick is to use other people’s time and money to create crime against nature.
jmsy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You already know what you call a fly with no wings
A walk
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Without a lie they’d just be horsefs
federated_toast@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Daaaaad
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Came up with that yoursef, did you?
tempest@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
No it’s because they take a horse sized chunk out of you when they bite you
Seleni@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But they do? Along with any other animal that happens to be nearby.
That is the one insect I will go out of my way to kill.
Madison420@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Don’t.
psoul@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Ok let me introduce you to the barn owl
Syd@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Do they eat barns?
Klear@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Polar bears are responsible for the ice caps disappearing.
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You’re right. They only drink horse (and cattle) blood.
Horse or cow vampire fly is a little long winded for a name.
angrystego@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
But it does sound kind of cool!
TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
I always felt bad for em, we either drowned them in alcohol or froze them. I also felt guilt boiling the ecoli I spent time genetically engineering (in a genetics lab)
psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
I have rescued so many fruit flies from my beer. You hardly need to drown them, just present them with a 5% ethanol by volume solution and let them drown themselves
(My beer system is outside in my courtyard, fruit flies love the drip tray)
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
I’m still confused. Based on my hometown, are you referring to insects, or rednecks!?
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That’s what liberals want us to be
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
LiberalsAll authoritarians left AND right. Please learn your political compass so you can have grown up conversations.
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
That was an unrecognized attempt to reference a meme “future liberals want”
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Please calibrate your joke meter so you can have normal conversations.
psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
That really makes me wonder what you mean by liberal
My take on the word highlights individual freedom except where it interferes with other’s individual freedoms
My take has most regulation put on corporations, ie. you and I are pretty free; Google has rules to follow (and so does the butcher, baker, and candlestick maker)
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Add to it the rule that every free person could have up to 3 slaves and I’m in
Etterra@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Reminds me of the old joke, what do you call a fly with no wings?
A walk.DrDystopia@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
what do you call a fly with no wings?
The victim of a psycopath in the making.
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Can somebody explain the fruit thing? I’ve seen fruit flies demolish fresh fruit. The amount of yeast biomass on them must be negligible at that point. Do the eggs/larvae spread the yeast before they start eating?
azi@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
The fruit flies you’ve seen eating fresh fruit are probably Drosophila suzukii (spotted wing fruit fly). Most (all?) other Drosophila species (including the model organism Drosophila melanogaster) only feed on rotting fruit. Though they’ll consume the sugars too, not just the microorganisms.
There are also some more distantly related flies that feed on fresh fruit and are commonly called fruit flies (eg the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata)
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m sure the meme is apocryphal, and it’s not entirely correct. Fruit flies do eat yeast, yes…but they also eat the sugars in the fermenting fruit, not just the microorganisms causing fruit decay. I don’t know about the larvae at all, though.
psud@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
There’s even the old Marx brothers joke “time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana”
The fruit fly trap taught to me by an entomologist friend is baited with wine, suggesting the fruit flies want fermenting fruit
The trap: get a plastic fizzy drink bottle; bigger is better
Cut off the top. The cut piece is a cone
Place the cone (the top piece) upside down on the rest of the bottle
Sticky tape the joint
Bait with cheap wine or leftover wine or beer
Her tastes were revealed in the description of baiting the trap — she specified red wine, but I have tested with various booze and fruit flies have no taste, they’ll go for anything. You could probably extract bait from the sourdough starter you made in lockdown and kept alive despite never making bread after that first try
AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Doesn’t even have to be actual booze. Apple cider vinegar + a drop of dawn dish soap works a treat.
hperrin@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They’re called fruit flies because they gather around rotting fruit.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
So why are you called “tramp-ass human”?
Welt@lazysoci.al 4 weeks ago
They’re generally called vinegar flies, and they don’t infest fresh fruit like fruit flies do when they lay their eggs in fruit.
hierophant_nihilant@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Drosophila are awesome! Been working on them for a long time:)
flora_explora@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Oh yeah, that brings up memories. We had to do the same experiments in genetics lab, too. I’ll never forget the smell of fruit flies :/
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Where my cheeky FlyNap sniffers at?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
THE POWER!
SerpentPeaked@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
What other lies have we been told? Does time not fly like an arrow?
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Emperor penguins and king penguins are not descendants of any royal bloodline and do not have an understanding of monarchical governments.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Gray Knights have been dispatched to your location, please stand by.
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Better yet, they aren’t actually penguins - they were just called that because they resembled real penguins.
Which are literally dead today, because they dared live close to humans.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Don’t even mention macaroni penguins…so disappointing.
EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You sound like a conspiracy wonk.
They are the only true emperors & kings recognized by the flightless aristocracy.
Tis the human “royals” who are living lies!
JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
What the fuck…
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Ha! That’s a good one. You almost had me for a second.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Someone tell this guy about Jeremy bearimy and timey wimey space stuff
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A time, B time, and lunch time.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
A man in a very tight suit with a blue box once told me it’s more wibbly-wobbly.
einlander@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Was he gender, species, and time fluid?
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
Fish fingers and custard was also a lie
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Nah, it just trips into the future
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Trippin’, trippin’, trippin’
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mosquito hawks do not, in fact, eat mosquitos.
I no longer respect those annoying fuckers.
angrystego@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Does an arrow fly at all?
Klear@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Calm down, Zeno.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Does time fly not like an arrow?
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
When we’re having fun.