Where do fruit flies come from?
If you are like me you have had the wonderful experience of waking up in the morning to groggily get your breakfast and finding fruit flies. You turn the light on and walk towards the cereal cupboard. Suddenly, you notice a small moving speck out of the corner of your eye, fruit fly! You groan as you realize that you will suddenly have an infestation for the next billion years.
So there are two explanations about where fruit flies come from.
The first comes from a website that has science in the name so it must be true. They talk about how fruit flies can fly into your house through the window screen or they come in as larvae on the fruit you purchase. This probably isn't true and is a boring explanation regardless.
The more UNCOMMON EXPLANATION is rather nuanced, complicated, and requires you to have a sharp mind to really understand it. So the atmosphere (air we breath) is made up of mainly the following things:
1. Nitrogen (78%)
2. Oxygen (21%)
3. Argon (0.9%)
4. A fair amount of water vapor
5. Traces of lots of other elements (Carbon being one of the biggest)
For produce to ferment there must be glucose present and this is the key. What I theorize is happening is that the carbon in the air reacts to the glucose in the fruit and by complex chemical processes the fruit flies are created in these reactions. This explanation seems "possible."
If you are like me you have had the wonderful experience of waking up in the morning to groggily get your breakfast and finding fruit flies. You turn the light on and walk towards the cereal cupboard. Suddenly, you notice a small moving speck out of the corner of your eye, fruit fly! You groan as you realize that you will suddenly have an infestation for the next billion years.
So there are two explanations about where fruit flies come from.
The first comes from a website that has science in the name so it must be true. They talk about how fruit flies can fly into your house through the window screen or they come in as larvae on the fruit you purchase. This probably isn't true and is a boring explanation regardless.
The more UNCOMMON EXPLANATION is rather nuanced, complicated, and requires you to have a sharp mind to really understand it. So the atmosphere (air we breath) is made up of mainly the following things:
1. Nitrogen (78%)
2. Oxygen (21%)
3. Argon (0.9%)
4. A fair amount of water vapor
5. Traces of lots of other elements (Carbon being one of the biggest)
For produce to ferment there must be glucose present and this is the key. What I theorize is happening is that the carbon in the air reacts to the glucose in the fruit and by complex chemical processes the fruit flies are created in these reactions. This explanation seems "possible."
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