Comments on: The Fruit Fly Life Cycle

By: Fruit Fly Solutions

Fruit Fly Solutions — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:32:00 +0000

Fruit flies can enter your home in two ways. One way is just as you mentioned. The fruit you buy may already have eggs deposited on the skin. Then, after you buy it and bring it home, the eggs hatch. The other way is that the fruit flies come into your home after smelling your ripening fruit. It may be hard to believe but fruit flies can smell fruit from great distances. They follow this scent to your home and hunt for a way in. Because they are so small, it isn’t that hard for them to find a way in. A crack around a door or window is perfect for them to crawl through.

By: Risa

Risa — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:00:03 +0000

Why is it when these fruit flies only emerge when you’ve had fruit sitting out for awhile? When there were no fruit flies before. Do they already have their eggs on the fruit before it’s bought? Where do they come from??

By: asma

asma — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:45:50 +0000

Hi, I would like to know the period of life cycle of fruit fly, becouse i work in study (master dgree) in fruit fly but the period of life cycle of fruit fly is confuse (i found differnce period but not knowed any correct period).

By: junaid

junaid — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 07:11:33 +0000

I work as a rep for a massive fruit and veg store, a week ago I went to the store room to collect milkshakes (some of the milkshakes were off ) and on the off milkshakes were a lot of fruit flys. I since got a rash on my face. It looks like 7 diffrent stings and is now a week later slightly passy..please assist me regarding this

By: Fruit Fly

Fruit Fly — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:11:30 +0000

I would like to know how long fruit flies can live with no food source. This is a vital piece of information to their life cycle in my kitchen!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:49:28 +0000

Maybe you should mention the time spent overall in the fruit fly…esp. if someone is doing a research project on fruit flies this will be a helpful resource website. Also can you add how the fruit fly is able to transform into another stage? Most websites don’t have that type of information. Thank you, all other information was needed in my assignment. Keep up the good work.

By: Pragmatic Environmentalism

Pragmatic Environmentalism — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:30:34 +0000

[...] completely, we’re going to stop feeding the new bin for a few weeks. It takes fruit flies 10 days at the most to mature from larvae, and as we’ve seen with the old bin, the worms can survive (even [...]

By: Fruit Fly Solutions

Fruit Fly Solutions — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:31:01 +0000

No, fruit flies don’t bite. They secrete a liquid that is used to break down fruit prior to consuming it. It is possible you were allergic to that liquid. If you want to get rid of them, make sure you don’t leave any fruit lying around anywhere in the open.

By: FruitFlyExpert

FruitFlyExpert — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:45:22 +0000

I personally dont think fruit flies can bite. It might of been an allergic reaction maybe. How can fruit flies bite anyway?

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:44:39 +0000

Can these fruit flies bite? I found 2 of them and as I swatted them off my wrist I was left with 2 welts of hives and had to use caladryl lotion to stop the sting & itch. Frist I thought they could have been fleas but they were fruit flies as I had some fruit on the t.v. cabinet stand like bananas and a couple of applies so then I realized they had to be fruit flies and not fleas. Needless to say I removed the fruit from my room and put the apples in the fridge and the bananas on the kitchen counter.