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Fruit Fly Facts

There are over 500 known fruit fly species across the globe. Like other fly species, fruit flies experience a four stage life cycle: beginning as eggs, they undergo larval and pupal stages before emerging as adults. The early life stages span approximately two to three weeks in ideal temperature conditions. Adult fruit flies can live up to 30 days.

The common fruit fly is a useful specimen in scientific research. The rapid life cycle allows researchers to study the effects of an experiment over a number of generations. Mutations are also common and easily followed in this fly species. Fruit flies have only four pairs of chromosomes: three autosomal pairs and one pair that determine sex. The entire compact genome of the common fruit fly was sequenced in 1998.

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