Steve Downer / Close-up larva of Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) showing mouth parts. UK

Steve Downer / Close-up larva of Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) showing internal structure, UK

Steve Downer / Larva of Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) feeding on apple, UK.

Floris van Breugel / High speed exposure of a Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) taken through a microscope. In this image flight muscles express a genetically engineered protein called GCaMP, which fluoresces green in t...

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) female (left) and male (right) California Institute of Technology, USA, December 2016.

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) tethered in LED illuminated chamber which stimulates moving visual patterns. Behind the fly is a camera, which is used to record its wing beat amplitude a rough me...

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) tethered to a tungsten pin. Despite not going anywhere, the fly will flap its wings, and respond to visual scenery as if it were in fact moving. This is a common ap...

Stephen Dalton / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) in flight having just taken-off from strawberry, controlled conditions.

Stephen Dalton / Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on rotting strawberry, England, UK, August

Stephen Dalton / Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on egg-shell, England, UK, August

Stephen Dalton / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) just taken off from melon, controlled conditions.

Rod Williams / Wildtype Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) mating on leaf, South London, UK, October