Talk:Drosophilidae

Clean up
I think the entry on how to fill fruit flies should move to another place (although I have no idea, maybe a topic Fruit flies & humans, there are also pieces of the Drosophila entry that might go there), and that this entry should focus on the taxonomy and general information of the family.--KimvdLinde 18:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

How do I kill fruit flies?
Discussion on this has been moved with content to Fruit flies and humans. Page itself has been deleted, how-to content, google it. --KimvdLinde 16:39, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Third Entry

 * Do we really need the third entry here? To me it seems like informal slang that doesn't even redirect to a page, we should all remember this is Wikipedia and not Urban Dictionary. Deathawk 17:57, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Lifespan
Is it true that this species has a lifespan of 24 hours?
 * First of all, this is not a single species, but a group of several 1000 species. And not, they live much longer that hat, although there is considerable variation within and between species. Kim van der Linde at venus 13:20, 11 May 2006 (UTC)


 * D. melanogaster lives for about 30 days. --Sarefo 01:29, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

How Big
there is nothing in the article that tells me how big these creatures are (are they larger or smaller than a standard house fly). 193.133.92.229 13:09, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

This is because this is not a single creature, but rather a family consisting of multiple genera (which each contain multiple species of fly), and these obviously vary in size. ---The 1337 Finkelsteinian 01:55, 19 February 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elyma (talk • contribs)

They love what?
What's 'droso-' ? Fruit? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 19:23, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * droso (Greek) = dew.--Miguelferig (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

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how long do they typically live ?
--Präziser (talk) 04:04, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Anti-parasitic behaviour
Why was this included in the article? I don't understand. If someone wants to restore it, please tell me why it was relevant 94.255.200.194 (talk) 12:15, 9 June 2024 (UTC)