The bottom of the vessel is covered with food for the flies. Although they are termed "fruit flies", Drosophila does not feed on vegetable elements but on the yeast cells living on the fruit. The ...

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Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal.

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