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:
“Is it not the chief disgrace in the world, not to be an unit;Mnot to be reckoned one character;Mnot to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or the thousand, of the party, the section, to which we belong; and our opinion predicted geographically, as the north, or the south?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo
and come out painted on a ceiling.
He wants to pierce the hornet’s nest
and come out with a long godhead.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)