Post 8: This Week in Science (Fruit Flies Part 1)

This week in science what i DID was saw fruit flies in a little jar. There was larvas in there , there was pupas in there. Also i came for office hours and put the flies to sleep ; but they never woke up :'( R.I.P fruit flies.

     im going to wait and see if they wake up if they dont ; thats the end of them :(

           What i learned this week in science was that when female and male mate the males sperm always stay inside the female so the female doesnt have to mate anymore because all her eggs would be fertilized. Also that when female fruit flies lay their eggs , their eggs hatch the next day, & turns in to a larva . the larva turn in to a pupa & the pupa take 6 days to hatch . i also learned that the way you find out if the fly is amle or female is by the ting the have on the end of their tail. and the female fly lays 20 eggs a day , which is 7300 eggs in a year