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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    biological lab work with animal subjects is the closest things we have to Roman augury.

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  • hierophant_nihilant@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Drosophila are awesome! Been working on them for a long time:)

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 :/

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of the old joke, what do you call a fly with no wings? A walk.

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    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what do you call a fly with no wings?

      The victim of a psycopath in the making.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where my cheeky FlyNap sniffers at?

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  • jmsy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana

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  • hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re called fruit flies because they gather around rotting fruit.

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So why are you called “tramp-ass human”?

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    • Welt@lazysoci.al ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Ultraviolet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are horseflies a lie because they don’t eat horses?

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    • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re right. They only drink horse (and cattle) blood.

      Horse or cow vampire fly is a little long winded for a name.

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      • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But it does sound kind of cool!

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    • psoul@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok let me introduce you to the barn owl

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Polar bears are responsible for the ice caps disappearing.

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      • Syd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do they eat barns?

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    • Seleni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t.

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Without a lie they’d just be horsefs

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      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Came up with that yoursef, did you?

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      • federated_toast@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Daaaaad

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    • tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No it’s because they take a horse sized chunk out of you when they bite you

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  • undergroundoverground@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You already know what you call a fly with no wings

    A walk

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  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Doesn’t even have to be actual booze. Apple cider vinegar + a drop of dawn dish soap works a treat.

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    • azi@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish I had the time and money to create crimes against nature.

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    • sibannac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The trick is to use other people’s time and money to create crime against nature.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t you drive a car?

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      • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s not like they built the car, though.

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  • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what liberals want us to be

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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      • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Add to it the rule that every free person could have up to 3 slaves and I’m in

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    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Liberals

      All authoritarians left AND right. Please learn your political compass so you can have grown up conversations.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Please calibrate your joke meter so you can have normal conversations.

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      • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That was an unrecognized attempt to reference a meme “future liberals want”

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  • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wtf do earthlings eat other than earth? Plants, animals & fungus are all parts of Earth TO BE EATEN

      By other animals or fungus.

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    • pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      W wait a s second! What do sperm wales eat? Have I been pointlessly jacking off into the ocean for decades??

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      • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, you’ve been keeping the salinity high.

        Thank you for your service.

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    • DesolateMood@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Like Fruit Bats.

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Or ya know, that they’re usually found hanging around near fruit.

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    • ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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’.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    THE POWER!

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  • SerpentPeaked@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What other lies have we been told? Does time not fly like an arrow?

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does an arrow fly at all?

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Calm down, Zeno.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mosquito hawks do not, in fact, eat mosquitos.

      I no longer respect those annoying fuckers.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, it just trips into the future

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Trippin’, trippin’, trippin’

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does time not fly like an arrow?

      Does time fly not like an arrow?

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      • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        When we’re having fun.

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    • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Someone tell this guy about Jeremy bearimy and timey wimey space stuff

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      • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        A time, B time, and lunch time.

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    • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A man in a very tight suit with a blue box once told me it’s more wibbly-wobbly.

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      • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fish fingers and custard was also a lie

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      • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Was he gender, species, and time fluid?

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Emperor penguins and king penguins are not descendants of any royal bloodline and do not have an understanding of monarchical governments.

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      • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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!

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      • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        What the fuck…

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      • Demdaru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gray Knights have been dispatched to your location, please stand by.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ha! That’s a good one. You almost had me for a second.

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Don’t even mention macaroni penguins…so disappointing.

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  • TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m still confused. Based on my hometown, are you referring to insects, or rednecks!?

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