fruit fly

1. Any of numerous small insects whose larvae feed on fruits (synset 102198996)
   is a type of: dipteran, dipteron, dipterous insect, two-winged insects - insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing
   subtypes:

   • apple maggot, railroad worm, rhagoletis pomonella - larvae bore into and feed on apples
   • ceratitis capitata, medfly, mediterranean fruit fly - small black-and-white fly that damages citrus and other fruits by implanting eggs that hatch inside the fruit
   • drosophila, drosophila melanogaster - small fruit fly used by Thomas Hunt Morgan in studying basic mechanisms of inheritance
   • vinegar fly - flies whose larvae feed on pickles and imperfectly sealed preserves
   same as: pomace fly

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