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The leaning tower of fruit flies.

#canonphotography #pixelfedphotography #fruitfly #flowerphotography #flowers #yellowflowers

Some flies go insomniac to ward off #parasites: There are negative consequences for the flies, but they avoid being eaten alive, 20250502,
by Elizabeth R,
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/some-flies-go-insomniac-to-ward-off-parasites/

#fruitFly #Drosophila_melanogaster #mite #Gamasodesqueenslandicus #Australia #biology

A friend of a friend in Cromwell has hosted an MPI fruit fly trap for 16 years without catching anything. Recently the trap captured its first fruit fly (a male), but we've yet to see an announcement from MPI.

Strange that.

Even worse, the MPI person who collected the trap said they've lost funding & will no longer be maintaining the traps, starting later this year.

What a dumb move. The Luxon government seems determined to save money in all the wrong places.

#BioSecurity #MPI #FruitFly #NZ

How do #NeuralNetworks generate diverse and variable outputs? This study of the larval #fruitfly locomotor system shows that relatively simple sets of #inhibitory circuit motifs can generate a surprising degree of diversity & variability in motor programs @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3GpT3pR

Left: Schematic of larval locomotor system model. Abdominal circuitry including initiation and wave detectors is duplicated bilaterally. HO oscillators are represented by large circles with an oscillator symbol. Intersegmental connections are represented by black lines connecting HOs. Reciprocal intersegmental connections amongst neighbouring HOs are represented by black lines. Initiation and wave detector motifs on each side are represented outside the core model. Middle column: Model compared to calcium imaging traces (righthand column) for three scenarios… Top: equal bias. Middle: forwards bias. Bottom: anterior bias.

So a few weeks ago, a relative of mine was looking for a new home for his old ZEISS research microscope.
And while I'm not a biologist - I'm a pretty big optics and photography nerd so I obviously couldn't decline the offer.

Let me take you onto a little journey to the #microcosmos 🧵

#zeiss #microscope #microscopy #fruitfly #brineshrimp #seamonkey

An old ZEISS ICM405 inverted microscope. It's pretty big and has the typical old hardware grey color. Since it's inverted, the objective revolver sits under the specimen stage and looks up. In the front it has a binocular for viewing, and a DSLR is attached to the camera port below. A large variable transformer sits next to the device for regulation of the light bulb.

microscope picture showing a partially translucent fruit fly against a pale blue background. It's legs are covered in many little spiky hairs and it has large dark compound eyes.

Microscope picture showing a red crustation. It's a brine shrimp (often sold as Sea-Monekys) with small black eyes and long antennae. Many legs are attached to the side of the body.

Colourful fruit fly #fruitfly #fruit #fly
#natgeoindia #natgeoyourshot #nikonphotography #nikonasia #picoftheday #photooftheday #nikonnxstudio #nxstudio #bbcearth #nikonindiaofficial #natgeowild #nature #naturephotography #nikonphotography #photography

#macro #macrophotography

Biosecurity New Zealand is on the case after a fruit fly was discovered in Birkdale, on Auckland's North Shore. They say they've trapped a single male Oriental fruit fly.

How did they know he was single?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542505/biosecurity-nz-boosting-trapping-after-new-auckland-fruit-fly-found

#NZ #FruitFly

Sensing food is a complex multisensory experience. A study of food hardness preference in #FruitFly larvae by @Simon_Sprecher &co reveals that gustatory organ sensory neurons can perceive cues of both chemical & mechanical stimulation #plosbiology https://plos.io/3CEv5FJ

Top left: Top—cartoon of larval food environment, showing a harder (fresh) fruit and a softer (ripe) fruit. Bottom—larval ingestion can be visualised by blue-dyed agarose present and visible in the digestive system. Top right: Experimental paradigm involving a range of decaying fruit for mechanical analysis. Bottom: Immunofluorescence stainings showing the expression of the transgenic 3xP3-RFP and generated pb/peb-split-GAL4 driving a UAS-myrGFP reporter in the taste organs, but not the DOG (left). With expression in the embryonic phase (right) mirroring that of the larva.

Curating records of fruitflies caught in Iceland

Come over with shipments of fruit, but some linger

One day we will have dna sequencess from them also

#Iceland #fruitfly #drosophila #invasion #genetics

#fruitfly #graphicdesign

These days, I call fruit flies by their names.

Picture of the edge of a graphical monitor. On it two fruit flies.

A team of researchers, including Katharina Eichler from #UniLeipzig, has created the first reconstruction of the structure of a #fruitfly brain.They created a circuit diagram of the brain. For the first time, nine papers have been published in #Nature.
https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2024/10/18/researchers-reconstruct-fruit-fly-brain-structure-for-the-first-time

Darren Incorvaia: The fruit fly revolutionized biology. Now it’s boosting science in #Africa: Researchers across the continent are turning to the humble insects for experiments

"When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies.

The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the Federal University of Santa Maria in Brazil on the health effects of certain pollutants. He had used laboratory rodents while working on his Ph.D. in #Nigeria and wasn’t previously exposed to the use of fruit flies. But when Abolaji joined toxicologist Joao Batista Teixeira da Rocha’s lab in Brazil, 'he told me he stopped the use of rodents for research.' Rocha had switched to using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster."

#fruitfly #entomology #biochemistry #toxicology #research
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fruit-fly-biology-africa-research

(@)itsthemind [Threads]: "Here It Is shown a neuronal wiring diagram of a whole brain containing 5 × 107 chemical synapses7 between 139,255 neurons reconstructed from an adult female Drosophila melanogaster."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07558-y

#fly #drosophila #fruitfly #science #neuralnetwork

https://www.threads.net/@itsthemind/post/DAyaqDHN2f0?xmt=AQGzQUBdfS7Dx3Wb8DFJX9MPwI05a0WZ7-_SdBf6s5iKzw

Why are #Blood #Transfusions So Tricky? : Medium

Largest #Brain map ever reveals #FruitFly’s neurons in exquisite detail : Nature

With #AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life ($) : WIRED

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#NewSpecies!
New fruit fly from #india just flew in:

Tritaeniopteron obscurum

Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/D2BBB96C-688A-485E-9F0F-1C37D8D3B9A9
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5506.3.1
#Zootaxa #TritaeniopteronObscurum

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #diptera #fruitfly

#CrittersOfMastadon

Hundreds of scientists and citizen scientists from around the world have mapped out more than 50 million connections in the tiny #fruitfly brain, a step toward one day producing an intricate map of the human brain that will aid in understanding and potentially treating numerous health conditions such as Parkinson’s, binge eating, depression and substance abuse.

The scientific milestone, the most detailed survey of an adult animal brain to date, helps to show the mechanisms involved as a fruit fly assembles, then acts on the impressions of the world that come through sight, smell and other senses.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/intricate-map-of-tiny-fruit-fly-brain-marks-major-neuroscience-milestone/ar-AA1rDjH3?ocid=BingNewsSerp

#brain #fruitfly #brainmapping