<story><title>Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors</title><url>https://blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitflies-and-the-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>But how are they born? I&amp;#x27;ll have no fruit flies in the house, and then I&amp;#x27;ll forget a potato, it rots, and then I&amp;#x27;ll be infested with fruit flies. Were they already on the potato before it rotted, or did one just happen in, found some food, and figured it would stay and start a family here?</text></item><item><author>austinl</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t blame medieval scholars for believing that flies spontaneously generated from things like raw meat (instead of reproducing). I would guess that fruit flies played a major role in supporting this theory.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spontaneous_generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spontaneous_generation&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.&lt;p&gt;They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Obscurity4340</author><text>This is what I always wondered about maggots, like when a person in any kind of sealed room, anywhere, dies and starts to decompose. I&amp;#x27;ve been lead to believe maggots inevitably appear and start the process but where did the larvae come from?! Food?</text></comment>
<story><title>Managing Kitchen Fruit Flies with a Little Shop of Horrors</title><url>https://blog.zaccohn.com/Fruitflies-and-the-Little-Shop-of-Horrors/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>stavros</author><text>But how are they born? I&amp;#x27;ll have no fruit flies in the house, and then I&amp;#x27;ll forget a potato, it rots, and then I&amp;#x27;ll be infested with fruit flies. Were they already on the potato before it rotted, or did one just happen in, found some food, and figured it would stay and start a family here?</text></item><item><author>austinl</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t blame medieval scholars for believing that flies spontaneously generated from things like raw meat (instead of reproducing). I would guess that fruit flies played a major role in supporting this theory.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spontaneous_generation&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Spontaneous_generation&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>Jaygles</author><text>I am convinced fruit flies are some sort of multidimensional being. I will sit in a room, observe three fruit flies in the air, swat and kill those three fruit flies, then sit back and observe no change in the number of flies in the air.&lt;p&gt;They either throw out decoys when you swat them to fool us, or there’s a large queue of them waiting to take their turn to keep the number flying constant</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jb1991</author><text>I think they’re actually on fruit or may be vegetables in your case from the start.</text></comment>