Post 9: This Week in Science (Fruit Flies Part 2)

   This week in science we put three fruit flies in our habitat. We also made a poster to show how the fruit flies develop. We showed that they will continue increasing in numbers because we picked a good amount of flies for the experiment. We picked 2 females and 1 male. we put them inside a jar and we will see how they progress.

   We learned a lot of things too. We learned that females produce 20 eggs a day. They also have a cool ability store sperm from the males. So the males only need to reproduce with the females once. They also have an extremely short life span. it takes one day for the eggs to hatch, 7 days to turn into a pupa, 6 days to become an adult, and 2 days to fully mature. All together, we learned a lot this week in science class.