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When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine:... →
A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a... →
Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little... →
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics;... →
If flies are a great model, they're a great model for flies. These animals, you know, they're not like us. We don't fly. We don't... →
Only flies have true halteres. In fact, the scientific term for flies, 'diptera,' means 'two wings.' Most insects, including bees... →
The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except... →
When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like... →
For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can... →
I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the... →
If you watch a fly on, say, a coffee table, you'll see that they're rubbing their little legs together to groom themselves; they're... →
It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that we... →
Like many insects, flies are most sensitive to green light. This means that they would see their world as 'black and white,' in that they... →
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