Fruit fly

Fruit fly may refer to:

Tephritidae, the family of large fruit flies. Tephritidae is one of two fly families referred to as " fruit flies.
Drosophilidae, the family of small fruit flies and vinegar flies, including:
- Drosophila melanogaster, often called the common fruit fly, which is an important model organism in modern biology. Drosophilidae is a diverse cosmopolitan family of flies, including the Genus Drosophila, which includes fruit flies Drosophila melanogaster (from the Greek for black-bellied dew-lover) is a two-winged insect that belongs to the Diptera, the order A model organism is a Species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological Phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made
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any insect of the Tephritidae family, whose larvae damage plant tissue.
any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.

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