cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/46708705

Party Time Flies (2021-10-04)

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[–] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (3 children)

Okay that's what I was thinking. But was thrown off by the clock. Fruit flies have a short life but longer than 6 hours so it didn't really make sense for them to die exactly at the same place.

I thought choice paralysis (from having to think about their future) made them freeze there and die from starvation or something

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    I think OP is confusing fruit flies with mayflies, some of which really only live for a single day as flies. Some of them even live only for a few minutes as flies. E.g. Oligoneuriella rhenana only lives for about 40 minutes in their adult form.

    But they live much longer, some of them up to 4 years, in their non-adult forms.

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