Fruit Fly

Fruit fly may refer to several organisms:

  • Tephritidae, a family of large, colorfully marked flies including agricultural pests
    • Vidalia (fruit fly), a genus
  • Drosophilidae, a family of smaller flies, including:
    • Drosophila, the genus of small fruit flies and vinegar flies
    • Drosophila melanogaster or common fruit fly, an important model organism in modern biology
    • Drosophila suzukii or Asian fruit fly, native to southeast Asia and an invasive species in North America
  • Bactrocera oleae or Olive fruit fly, native to the Eastern Hemisphere and an invasive species in North America

Fruit fly may also refer to:

  • Fruit Fly (film), 2009 film directed by H. P. Mendoza
  • LGBT slang with a meaning similar to fag hag

Famous quotes containing the words fruit and/or fly:

    “It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The busy tribes of flesh and blood,
    With all their lives and cares,
    Are carried downwards by thy flood,
    And lost in following years.

    Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
    Bears all its sons away;
    They fly forgotten, as a dream
    Dies at the opening day.”
    —Isaac Watts (1674–1748)