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She has also earned awards from the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists.\r\n\r\nHer videos for KQED have also aired on NOVA scienceNOW and the PBS NewsHour, and appeared on NPR.org.\r\n\r\nAs an independent filmmaker, she produced and directed the hour-long documentary \u003ca href=\"http://lpbp.org/beautiful-sin-qa-with-producer-gabriela-quiros/\">\u003cem>Beautiful Sin\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, about the surprising story of how Costa Rica became the only country in the world to outlaw in vitro fertilization. The film aired in 2015 on public television stations throughout the U.S., and in Costa Rica.\r\n\r\nShe started her journalism career as a newspaper reporter in Costa Rica, where she grew up. She won the National Science Journalism Award there for a series of articles about organic agriculture, and developed a life-long interest in health reporting. She moved to the Bay Area in 1996 to study documentary filmmaking at the University of California, Berkeley, where she received master’s degrees in journalism and Latin American studies.","avatar":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d82c20152affd1b434c31a904c40809?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twitter":"gabrielaquirosr","facebook":null,"instagram":null,"linkedin":null,"sites":[{"site":"science","roles":["editor"]},{"site":"quest","roles":["editor","ef_view_calendar","ef_view_story_budget"]}],"headData":{"title":"Gabriela Quirós | KQED","description":"Video Producer and Reporter","ogImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d82c20152affd1b434c31a904c40809?s=600&d=blank&r=g","twImgSrc":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d82c20152affd1b434c31a904c40809?s=600&d=blank&r=g"},"isLoading":false,"link":"/author/gabriela-quiros"}},"breakingNewsReducer":{},"campaignFinanceReducer":{},"firebase":{"requesting":{},"requested":{},"timestamps":{},"data":{},"ordered":{},"auth":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"authError":null,"profile":{"isLoaded":false,"isEmpty":true},"listeners":{"byId":{},"allIds":[]},"isInitializing":false,"errors":[]},"navBarReducer":{"navBarId":"news","fullView":true,"showPlayer":false},"navMenuReducer":{"menus":[{"key":"menu1","items":[{"name":"News","link":"/","type":"title"},{"name":"Politics","link":"/politics"},{"name":"Science","link":"/science"},{"name":"Education","link":"/educationnews"},{"name":"Housing","link":"/housing"},{"name":"Immigration","link":"/immigration"},{"name":"Criminal Justice","link":"/criminaljustice"},{"name":"Silicon Valley","link":"/siliconvalley"},{"name":"Forum","link":"/forum"},{"name":"The California Report","link":"/californiareport"}]},{"key":"menu2","items":[{"name":"Arts & Culture","link":"/arts","type":"title"},{"name":"Critics’ Picks","link":"/thedolist"},{"name":"Cultural Commentary","link":"/artscommentary"},{"name":"Food & Drink","link":"/food"},{"name":"Bay Area Hip-Hop","link":"/bayareahiphop"},{"name":"Rebel Girls","link":"/rebelgirls"},{"name":"Arts Video","link":"/artsvideos"}]},{"key":"menu3","items":[{"name":"Podcasts","link":"/podcasts","type":"title"},{"name":"Bay Curious","link":"/podcasts/baycurious"},{"name":"Rightnowish","link":"/podcasts/rightnowish"},{"name":"The Bay","link":"/podcasts/thebay"},{"name":"On Our Watch","link":"/podcasts/onourwatch"},{"name":"Mindshift","link":"/podcasts/mindshift"},{"name":"Consider This","link":"/podcasts/considerthis"},{"name":"Political Breakdown","link":"/podcasts/politicalbreakdown"}]},{"key":"menu4","items":[{"name":"Live Radio","link":"/radio","type":"title"},{"name":"TV","link":"/tv","type":"title"},{"name":"Events","link":"/events","type":"title"},{"name":"For Educators","link":"/education","type":"title"},{"name":"Support KQED","link":"/support","type":"title"},{"name":"About","link":"/about","type":"title"},{"name":"Help Center","link":"https://kqed-helpcenter.kqed.org/s","type":"title"}]}]},"pagesReducer":{},"postsReducer":{"stream_live":{"type":"live","id":"stream_live","audioUrl":"https://streams.kqed.org/kqedradio","title":"Live Stream","excerpt":"Live Stream information currently unavailable.","link":"/radio","featImg":"","label":{"name":"KQED Live","link":"/"}},"stream_kqedNewscast":{"type":"posts","id":"stream_kqedNewscast","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/newscast.mp3?_=1","title":"KQED Newscast","featImg":"","label":{"name":"88.5 FM","link":"/"}},"science_1979380":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1979380","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1979380","score":null,"sort":[1654607748000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-freaky-fruit-fly-lays-eggs-in-your-strawberries","title":"This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries","publishDate":1654607748,"format":"video","headTitle":"This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]\u003cem>The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggots turn the fruit into a mushy mess. Could a wasp and its own hungry maggots save the day?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>TRANSCRIPT\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You’ll never delight in this juicy raspberry, if this fly gets its way. It’s called a spotted wing drosophila because the male has dark spots on its wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common fruit flies are maddening enough, crawling around and feeding on your overripe bananas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their spotted wing cousins are way worse. They ruin blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries at their mouth-watering prime, before they can ever reach your kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out in the strawberry patch, this female spotted wing drosophila is ready to lay some eggs. She uses this tool, called an ovipositor, to cut into the fruit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her ovipositor is long and has two rows of teeth. Much more impressive than the common fruit fly, which uses a smaller, smoother ovipositor to lay eggs on rotting fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spotted wing drosophila uses the extra cutting power to dig a hole into firm fruit while it’s still in the field. Then she pushes her egg in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See that tiny white string she left behind? It looks like one of the strawberry hairs, but that’s how the egg will breathe. Kind of like a snorkel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within three days the egg hatches into a squirmy maggot. It makes itself at home – in this case, in a blueberry. The maggot transforms into a pupa at the fruit’s surface, where it breathes through two star-shaped tubes called spiracles. All this mucking about in the pulp ruins the fruit, so it never makes it to market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These flies cost farmers millions all around the world. They’re originally from East Asia. Growers have to spray insecticides to kill them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why scientists are introducing a less toxic option. They’ve invited an old enemy from Asia to take the fly down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote]\u003cbr>\nADDITIONAL RESOURCES\u003cbr>\nRead about \u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74158.html#:~:text=Spotted%20wing%20drosophila%20(SWD)%2C,crops%2C%20especially%20in%20coastal%20areas.\">the impact of the spotted wing drosophila fly in California\u003c/a>, in this sheet prepared by the UC Integrated Pest Management Program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2018 videotaped talk, UC Berkeley entomologist Kent Daane describes \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/KVTGmDo2LLQ\">the sleuthing that led him and his colleagues to a parasitic wasp, \u003cem>Ganaspis brasiliensis\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will soon be released in the U.S. to control the spotted wing drosophila. The wasp is featured in the Deep Look video above.\u003cbr>\n[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This parasitic wasp is even tinier than the fly, but just as determined to lay her eggs. Her favorite spot is inside a fly’s growing maggot. She can feel vibrations that lead her to a fly maggot moving below the fruit’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She slides a thin needle into the blueberry and injects an egg straight into a maggot. The wasp egg hatches. But instead of killing the fly maggot right away, it waits for it to plump up and develop a hard casing. Then the wasp maggot devours the fly and grows into an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that’s left of the fly is its casing, from which the triumphant wasp emerges. It’s a boy! You can tell by the long antennae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have been raising these wasps in labs in the U.S. Soon they’ll be released into fields across the country. Based on their research, scientists say the wasps will almost exclusively target spotted wing drosophila and the occasional common fruit fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wasps can cut down the number of flies, but only up to about half. So, farmers will still need to use some pesticides. They’ll be playing a game of whack-a-mole to prevent flies from turning our scrumptious berries into mush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hey, Deep Peeps! If you liked seeing the spotted wing drosophila meet its match, we have an episode about the gruesome death of fruit flies. Watch how a killer fungus turns them into spore-launching zombies. Enjoy!\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it's so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggots turn the fruit into a mushy mess. Could a wasp and its own hungry maggots save the day?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846254,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":696},"headData":{"title":"This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries | KQED","description":"The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it's so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggots turn the fruit into a mushy mess. Could a wasp and its own hungry maggots save the day?","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"This Freaky Fruit Fly Lays Eggs in Your Strawberries","datePublished":"2022-06-07T13:15:48.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:24:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/MJsI50wQELU","source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/science/1979380/this-freaky-fruit-fly-lays-eggs-in-your-strawberries","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cem>The spotted wing drosophila may look like a common fruit fly, but it’s so much worse. Just as strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are ripening in the field, this fly saws into them and lays her eggs inside. The growing maggots turn the fruit into a mushy mess. Could a wasp and its own hungry maggots save the day?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>TRANSCRIPT\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>You’ll never delight in this juicy raspberry, if this fly gets its way. It’s called a spotted wing drosophila because the male has dark spots on its wings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common fruit flies are maddening enough, crawling around and feeding on your overripe bananas. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their spotted wing cousins are way worse. They ruin blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries at their mouth-watering prime, before they can ever reach your kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Out in the strawberry patch, this female spotted wing drosophila is ready to lay some eggs. She uses this tool, called an ovipositor, to cut into the fruit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her ovipositor is long and has two rows of teeth. Much more impressive than the common fruit fly, which uses a smaller, smoother ovipositor to lay eggs on rotting fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spotted wing drosophila uses the extra cutting power to dig a hole into firm fruit while it’s still in the field. Then she pushes her egg in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See that tiny white string she left behind? It looks like one of the strawberry hairs, but that’s how the egg will breathe. Kind of like a snorkel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within three days the egg hatches into a squirmy maggot. It makes itself at home – in this case, in a blueberry. The maggot transforms into a pupa at the fruit’s surface, where it breathes through two star-shaped tubes called spiracles. All this mucking about in the pulp ruins the fruit, so it never makes it to market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These flies cost farmers millions all around the world. They’re originally from East Asia. Growers have to spray insecticides to kill them. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why scientists are introducing a less toxic option. They’ve invited an old enemy from Asia to take the fly down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"\u003cbr>\nADDITIONAL RESOURCES\u003cbr>\nRead about \u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn74158.html#:~:text=Spotted%20wing%20drosophila%20(SWD)%2C,crops%2C%20especially%20in%20coastal%20areas.\">the impact of the spotted wing drosophila fly in California\u003c/a>, in this sheet prepared by the UC Integrated Pest Management Program. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2018 videotaped talk, UC Berkeley entomologist Kent Daane describes \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/KVTGmDo2LLQ\">the sleuthing that led him and his colleagues to a parasitic wasp, \u003cem>Ganaspis brasiliensis\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which will soon be released in the U.S. to control the spotted wing drosophila. The wasp is featured in the Deep Look video above.\u003cbr>\n","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This parasitic wasp is even tinier than the fly, but just as determined to lay her eggs. Her favorite spot is inside a fly’s growing maggot. She can feel vibrations that lead her to a fly maggot moving below the fruit’s surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She slides a thin needle into the blueberry and injects an egg straight into a maggot. The wasp egg hatches. But instead of killing the fly maggot right away, it waits for it to plump up and develop a hard casing. Then the wasp maggot devours the fly and grows into an adult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All that’s left of the fly is its casing, from which the triumphant wasp emerges. It’s a boy! You can tell by the long antennae.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have been raising these wasps in labs in the U.S. Soon they’ll be released into fields across the country. Based on their research, scientists say the wasps will almost exclusively target spotted wing drosophila and the occasional common fruit fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wasps can cut down the number of flies, but only up to about half. So, farmers will still need to use some pesticides. They’ll be playing a game of whack-a-mole to prevent flies from turning our scrumptious berries into mush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hey, Deep Peeps! If you liked seeing the spotted wing drosophila meet its match, we have an episode about the gruesome death of fruit flies. Watch how a killer fungus turns them into spore-launching zombies. Enjoy!\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1979380/this-freaky-fruit-fly-lays-eggs-in-your-strawberries","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_2874","science_36","science_40","science_4450","science_86"],"tags":["science_1970","science_3315"],"featImg":"science_1979387","label":"source_science_1979380"},"science_1971058":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1971058","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1971058","score":null,"sort":[1606226434000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"heres-how-that-annoying-fly-dodges-your-swatter","title":"Here’s How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter","publishDate":1606226434,"format":"video","headTitle":"Here’s How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1935,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]If an outdoors, socially-distanced gathering is part of your Thanksgiving plans, beware of uninvited guests. I don’t mean friendly neighbors who might invite themselves to a piece of pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_eats_apple.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_eats_apple.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blowfly feeds on an apple with its straw-like proboscis. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’m talking about flies. Buzzing around curiously, they’ll help themselves to whatever food you leave unattended. As they walk all around they could spread hundreds of types of bacteria they carry on their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you try sneaking up on one and it skedaddles. Why, oh why, is it so hard to swat a fly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_escapes_swatter.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_escapes_swatter.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now you see me, now you don’t. A blowfly escapes a swatter in the nick of time. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flies are formidable opponents, with an arsenal of tools they carry all over their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, their hair and antennae help a fly sense us as we walk up to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have sensory hairs all over their body that help them detect air currents,” said entomologist Jessica Fox, who studies flies’ shenanigans at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_cleans_eyes.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_cleans_eyes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fly can see you coming from nearly every angle. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only can they feel us, they can see us too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a very small blind spot in the back of their head,” Fox said, “but a lot of flies can see almost 360 degrees around their heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a fly’s eyes and tiny brain process information 10 times faster than human eyes and brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compared to flies, humans are slow and sluggish creatures,” said Sanjay Sane, who researches flies at the National Centre for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_makes_sharp_turns.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_makes_sharp_turns.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quick, sharp turns help a fly dodge your swatter. These aerobatics are possible thanks to a pair of tiny club-shaped limbs called halteres, nestled below the fly’s two wings. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the fly escapes your swatter and is in the air, it’s in its element and your job is even tougher. Seen up close and slowed down, a fly’s aerobatics are impressive: It makes razor-sharp turns with ease and at great speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes this possible is a pair of modified wings called halteres, a Greek word for dumbbell, which describes their shape. All of the 200,000 species of flies that scientists have described have a pair of halteres and a pair of wings. (That includes mosquitoes, which, wouldn’t you know it, are flies too.) Most other insects — bees, butterflies, dragonflies — have four wings and no halteres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Halteres_of_crane_fly_Fox.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Halteres_of_crane_fly_Fox.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The relatively large halteres of a crane fly are easier to spot than most. The halteres are the small, club-shaped parts beating below the fly’s wings. \u003ccite>(Jessica Fox/Case Western Reserve University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a fly turns, its halteres sense the rotation. In a split second, neurons at the base of the halteres send information to the fly’s muscles to steer its wings and keep its head steady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Houseflies flap their wings about 200 times per second, which means they really only have five milliseconds to figure out what the next wingbeat is going to be like. And if you’re using vision that takes too long to do,” Fox said. “They really need a mechanical receptor in order to be able to sense their body rotations and correct them on the timescale that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though flies are a pesky pest and we are constantly in their pursuit, they likely evolved halteres to escape other animals besides us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flies hang out on the backs of cows,” said Sane. “The tail of a cow trying to flick insects off, it’s likely to kill the fly if it doesn’t fly off fast.” Lizard tongues are also quick-moving threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s flies themselves. In lightning-fast chases, males compete for the ability to mate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These chases are among the most aerobatic chases that I’ve ever seen; there’s nothing that comes even close,” said Sane. “And if flies did not turn very fast they’ll get caught and slammed to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When researchers remove a fly’s halteres, it can no longer control its flight. It loses all sense of where its body is in space. In slowed-down videos, flies without halteres give the impression of being drunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_without_halteres_falls_Fox.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_without_halteres_falls_Fox.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fly whose halteres have been removed by researchers can’t control its flight and falls down. \u003ccite>(Katie Jordan, Alex Yarger and Jessica Fox/Case Western Reserve University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t seem to know; they just keep flapping,” said Fox. “They just keep pitching and rolling and eventually they fall. We’ve got a lot of great videos of these flies comedically falling out of the sky.” \u003cem>(You can see more examples in the Deep Look video embedded in this story.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a fly gets inside your house, its halteres will help it do a fly’s signature move: the ceiling landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_walks_on_ceiling.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_walks_on_ceiling.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fly can stay out of reach by hanging upside down on the ceiling. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It hangs there with tiny hooks and sticky pads on its feet. The pads, called pulvilli, have microscopic hairs that excrete a liquid that sticks to the surface under pressure, sort of like suction. Hooks on the fly’s feet also help it stay put, by attaching to microscopic imperfections on the surface of the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pads on a fly’s feet, called pulvilli, have microscopic hairs that excrete a liquid that sticks to the surface. The photo on the right shows an extreme close-up of the hairs. \u003ccite>(Stanislav Gorb/University of Kiel, Germany)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the fly’s slick tools, Sane recommends one trick next time you try to nab one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flies process information about moving objects but they cannot process static objects,” he explained. “Thus, the best way to approach a fly is in small, quasi-static steps such that they do not see you as a moving object.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you go very slowly, and then pounce, you might stand a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good luck, though,” he said, “because flies are spectacularly fast.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A fly has a pair of tiny, dumbbell-shaped limbs called halteres that were once a second pair of wings. They wield them to make razor-sharp turns and land out of reach on your ceiling. But don't despair – there *is* a trick to smacking these infuriating insects.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704846927,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1088},"headData":{"title":"Here’s How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter | KQED","description":"A fly has a pair of tiny, dumbbell-shaped limbs called halteres that were once a second pair of wings. They wield them to make razor-sharp turns and land out of reach on your ceiling. But don't despair – there *is* a trick to smacking these infuriating insects.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Here’s How That Annoying Fly Dodges Your Swatter","datePublished":"2020-11-24T14:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:35:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/jBPFCvEhv9Y","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1971058/heres-how-that-annoying-fly-dodges-your-swatter","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>If an outdoors, socially-distanced gathering is part of your Thanksgiving plans, beware of uninvited guests. I don’t mean friendly neighbors who might invite themselves to a piece of pie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971201\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_eats_apple.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971201\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_eats_apple.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blowfly feeds on an apple with its straw-like proboscis. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I’m talking about flies. Buzzing around curiously, they’ll help themselves to whatever food you leave unattended. As they walk all around they could spread hundreds of types of bacteria they carry on their legs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So you try sneaking up on one and it skedaddles. Why, oh why, is it so hard to swat a fly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971202\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_escapes_swatter.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971202\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_escapes_swatter.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now you see me, now you don’t. A blowfly escapes a swatter in the nick of time. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Flies are formidable opponents, with an arsenal of tools they carry all over their bodies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, their hair and antennae help a fly sense us as we walk up to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have sensory hairs all over their body that help them detect air currents,” said entomologist Jessica Fox, who studies flies’ shenanigans at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_cleans_eyes.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_cleans_eyes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fly can see you coming from nearly every angle. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Not only can they feel us, they can see us too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a very small blind spot in the back of their head,” Fox said, “but a lot of flies can see almost 360 degrees around their heads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And a fly’s eyes and tiny brain process information 10 times faster than human eyes and brains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compared to flies, humans are slow and sluggish creatures,” said Sanjay Sane, who researches flies at the National Centre for Biological Sciences at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_makes_sharp_turns.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_makes_sharp_turns.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quick, sharp turns help a fly dodge your swatter. These aerobatics are possible thanks to a pair of tiny club-shaped limbs called halteres, nestled below the fly’s two wings. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Once the fly escapes your swatter and is in the air, it’s in its element and your job is even tougher. Seen up close and slowed down, a fly’s aerobatics are impressive: It makes razor-sharp turns with ease and at great speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What makes this possible is a pair of modified wings called halteres, a Greek word for dumbbell, which describes their shape. All of the 200,000 species of flies that scientists have described have a pair of halteres and a pair of wings. (That includes mosquitoes, which, wouldn’t you know it, are flies too.) Most other insects — bees, butterflies, dragonflies — have four wings and no halteres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Halteres_of_crane_fly_Fox.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Halteres_of_crane_fly_Fox.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The relatively large halteres of a crane fly are easier to spot than most. The halteres are the small, club-shaped parts beating below the fly’s wings. \u003ccite>(Jessica Fox/Case Western Reserve University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As a fly turns, its halteres sense the rotation. In a split second, neurons at the base of the halteres send information to the fly’s muscles to steer its wings and keep its head steady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Houseflies flap their wings about 200 times per second, which means they really only have five milliseconds to figure out what the next wingbeat is going to be like. And if you’re using vision that takes too long to do,” Fox said. “They really need a mechanical receptor in order to be able to sense their body rotations and correct them on the timescale that they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though flies are a pesky pest and we are constantly in their pursuit, they likely evolved halteres to escape other animals besides us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flies hang out on the backs of cows,” said Sane. “The tail of a cow trying to flick insects off, it’s likely to kill the fly if it doesn’t fly off fast.” Lizard tongues are also quick-moving threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s flies themselves. In lightning-fast chases, males compete for the ability to mate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These chases are among the most aerobatic chases that I’ve ever seen; there’s nothing that comes even close,” said Sane. “And if flies did not turn very fast they’ll get caught and slammed to the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When researchers remove a fly’s halteres, it can no longer control its flight. It loses all sense of where its body is in space. In slowed-down videos, flies without halteres give the impression of being drunk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971206\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_without_halteres_falls_Fox.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971206\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_without_halteres_falls_Fox.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fly whose halteres have been removed by researchers can’t control its flight and falls down. \u003ccite>(Katie Jordan, Alex Yarger and Jessica Fox/Case Western Reserve University)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They don’t seem to know; they just keep flapping,” said Fox. “They just keep pitching and rolling and eventually they fall. We’ve got a lot of great videos of these flies comedically falling out of the sky.” \u003cem>(You can see more examples in the Deep Look video embedded in this story.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a fly gets inside your house, its halteres will help it do a fly’s signature move: the ceiling landing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971207\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_walks_on_ceiling.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971207\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_Fly_walks_on_ceiling.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fly can stay out of reach by hanging upside down on the ceiling. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It hangs there with tiny hooks and sticky pads on its feet. The pads, called pulvilli, have microscopic hairs that excrete a liquid that sticks to the surface under pressure, sort of like suction. Hooks on the fly’s feet also help it stay put, by attaching to microscopic imperfections on the surface of the ceiling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1971208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2020/11/DL720_pulvilli_1920-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pads on a fly’s feet, called pulvilli, have microscopic hairs that excrete a liquid that sticks to the surface. The photo on the right shows an extreme close-up of the hairs. \u003ccite>(Stanislav Gorb/University of Kiel, Germany)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the fly’s slick tools, Sane recommends one trick next time you try to nab one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flies process information about moving objects but they cannot process static objects,” he explained. “Thus, the best way to approach a fly is in small, quasi-static steps such that they do not see you as a moving object.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you go very slowly, and then pounce, you might stand a chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Good luck, though,” he said, “because flies are spectacularly fast.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1971058/heres-how-that-annoying-fly-dodges-your-swatter","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_2874","science_30","science_39","science_40","science_4450","science_86"],"tags":["science_1970","science_4414","science_3315"],"featImg":"science_1971199","label":"science_1935"},"science_1949314":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1949314","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1949314","score":null,"sort":[1571749257000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"this-killer-fungus-turns-flies-into-zombies","title":"This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies","publishDate":1571749257,"format":"video","headTitle":"This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1935,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]Some of the scariest monsters are the ones that grow inside another being and take over its body. Think of the movie “Alien,” where the reptile-like space creature pulsates and grows inside its victim, then explodes out of his chest in a terrifying climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monster might be fictional, but scientists are studying a fungus that’s horrifyingly real — at least for the flies it invades, turns into a zombie-like state and kills in order to reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, it’s a nightmare for the flies,” said entomologist \u003ca href=\"https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/bradley-mullens\">Brad Mullens\u003c/a>, who retired from UC Riverside after studying the fungus for 20 years. “If their little brains could comprehend it, they would live in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fungus is known by its scientific name, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em>, which means “fly destroyer.” It lives off houseflies and fruit flies, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crazy system,” said \u003ca href=\"https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/carolyn-elya\">Carolyn Elya\u003c/a>, a researcher at Harvard. While getting her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, she described what a fungus infection looks like in fruit flies and she continues to study their interaction. “The fungus only kills at dusk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White fungus emerges from a dead fruit fly’s abdomen. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a killer puppeteer, the fungus follows a precise clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few days after picking up a fungal spore, an infected fruit fly seems normal. But inside its body, the fungus is growing, taking over the fly’s brain and central nervous system and feeding on its fat body, the tissue where insects store nutrients and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dusk on the fourth or fifth day, the fruit fly stops flying and starts behaving erratically, for example climbing up and down the toothpicks that Elya puts into the vials where she keeps the infected insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the fly climbs to the top of the toothpick, a behavior Elya and other scientists refer to as “summiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly climbs to the top of a toothpick shortly before dying, a behavior scientists call “summiting.” \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the fungus is tapping into the flies’ gravitactic circuitry — neurons that make them climb,” Elya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual twist, the fly then extends its mouthpart down, and some liquid drips out and glues the fly to the surface it’s standing on. Researchers believe the droplets are made up of fungus, though Elya said it’s not clear whether the fungus is inherently adhesive or makes itself sticky so that the fly gets stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949569\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly extends its mouthpart towards the tip of a toothpick it climbed up. Liquid on their mouthparts glues infected flies to the surface they’re standing on. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the next 10 or so minutes, the fly’s wings ascend in small bursts until they’re pointing straight up. Sometimes this happens more quickly. And then it dies frozen in this lifelike pose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly’s wings shoot up shortly before it dies. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, white spongy fungus oozes out of its abdomen. When the fungus has all come out, the fly looks as if a cotton ball had grown over its lower body. This white goo is made up of hundreds of tiny lollipop-shaped protrusions called conidiophores, which each launch a microscopic bell-shaped spore at high speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949571\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fungus pushes through the soft cuticle in between the fly’s exoskeleton to shoot out its reproductive spores. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These spores are the next generation of fungus. They need to get into another fly to grow. But why would a healthy fly hang out around a dead one? Mullens found that in dairy and poultry farms, infected houseflies died at dusk on the cool end of the barn — the fungus prefers lower temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, living flies would warm themselves in the first rays of sun, which fall right where the flies died the night before. The fungus had spent all night shooting out spores. Come morning, those spores started shooting out secondary spores that infected the living flies that had come to warm up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precision of the fungus’ clock was “very neat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These flies are in the wrong place at the wrong time: They could get infected with spores shooting out from the infected dead fly. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists believe that getting the fly to point its wings up helps the fungus spread its spores. If the fly climbed high enough, the spores might be dispersed by the wind. And there’s an added bonus for the fungus in keeping the fly’s wings up. In houseflies, scientists have observed males mating with infected female cadavers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the fat females are especially attractive for the males,” said Mullens. Those males carry off some spores and spread them around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nature, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em> can be lethal to large groups of flies in the fall, when the cooler temperatures that the fungus prefers have started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t worry — the fungus doesn’t hurt humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very unlikely that a similar fungus could zombify people,” said Elya. “Not only do we run much warmer than an average fly, we can control our bodily temperature to kill invaders. We also have an adaptive immune system, which is good at amplifying responses to specific invaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullens and other researchers tried to figure out how the fungus might be put to use as a biological control for flies in homes and farms. But the spores are short-lived, fragile and difficult to grow in the lab, which has made it impossible to bottle them up and use them as an insecticide. And a housefly lives about as long as it takes the fungus to incubate anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could this fungus kill the pesky flies in your kitchen? Researchers have tried to harness the fungus as a biological control, but its spores — which have coated this petri dish in a lab at Harvard — are short-lived and fragile. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more efficient ways to kill flies, and faster,” said Mullens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, researchers are imagining ways to put this fly-killer to work for humans. One possible scenario would be to plant the cadavers of fungus-covered flies in a farm while they’re still spewing spores and attracting living flies to them with foul-smelling bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that’s a horror-movie plot if there ever was one.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Something is growing inside that fly in your kitchen, and it kills only at dusk.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704848214,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1129},"headData":{"title":"This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies | KQED","description":"Something is growing inside that fly in your kitchen, and it kills only at dusk.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"This Killer Fungus Turns Flies into Zombies","datePublished":"2019-10-22T13:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T00:56:54.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/C2Jw5ib-s_I","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1949314/this-killer-fungus-turns-flies-into-zombies","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some of the scariest monsters are the ones that grow inside another being and take over its body. Think of the movie “Alien,” where the reptile-like space creature pulsates and grows inside its victim, then explodes out of his chest in a terrifying climax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That monster might be fictional, but scientists are studying a fungus that’s horrifyingly real — at least for the flies it invades, turns into a zombie-like state and kills in order to reproduce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, it’s a nightmare for the flies,” said entomologist \u003ca href=\"https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/bradley-mullens\">Brad Mullens\u003c/a>, who retired from UC Riverside after studying the fungus for 20 years. “If their little brains could comprehend it, they would live in fear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fungus is known by its scientific name, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em>, which means “fly destroyer.” It lives off houseflies and fruit flies, among others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a crazy system,” said \u003ca href=\"https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/carolyn-elya\">Carolyn Elya\u003c/a>, a researcher at Harvard. While getting her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, she described what a fungus infection looks like in fruit flies and she continues to study their interaction. “The fungus only kills at dusk,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949556\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949556\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">White fungus emerges from a dead fruit fly’s abdomen. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a killer puppeteer, the fungus follows a precise clock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first few days after picking up a fungal spore, an infected fruit fly seems normal. But inside its body, the fungus is growing, taking over the fly’s brain and central nervous system and feeding on its fat body, the tissue where insects store nutrients and energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At dusk on the fourth or fifth day, the fruit fly stops flying and starts behaving erratically, for example climbing up and down the toothpicks that Elya puts into the vials where she keeps the infected insects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the fly climbs to the top of the toothpick, a behavior Elya and other scientists refer to as “summiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949570\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949570\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_ON_TOP_OF_TOOTHPICK-e1571448549706.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly climbs to the top of a toothpick shortly before dying, a behavior scientists call “summiting.” \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the fungus is tapping into the flies’ gravitactic circuitry — neurons that make them climb,” Elya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an unusual twist, the fly then extends its mouthpart down, and some liquid drips out and glues the fly to the surface it’s standing on. Researchers believe the droplets are made up of fungus, though Elya said it’s not clear whether the fungus is inherently adhesive or makes itself sticky so that the fly gets stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949569\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_INFECTED_FLY_MOUTHPART_STUCK_TO_TOOTHPICK-e1571696818207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949569\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly extends its mouthpart towards the tip of a toothpick it climbed up. Liquid on their mouthparts glues infected flies to the surface they’re standing on. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the next 10 or so minutes, the fly’s wings ascend in small bursts until they’re pointing straight up. Sometimes this happens more quickly. And then it dies frozen in this lifelike pose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_WINGS_SHOOT_UP_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An infected fruit fly’s wings shoot up shortly before it dies. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Soon after, white spongy fungus oozes out of its abdomen. When the fungus has all come out, the fly looks as if a cotton ball had grown over its lower body. This white goo is made up of hundreds of tiny lollipop-shaped protrusions called conidiophores, which each launch a microscopic bell-shaped spore at high speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949571\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FUNGUS_OOZES_FROM_DEAD_FRUIT_FLY_ECU-e1571448520928.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949571\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fungus pushes through the soft cuticle in between the fly’s exoskeleton to shoot out its reproductive spores. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These spores are the next generation of fungus. They need to get into another fly to grow. But why would a healthy fly hang out around a dead one? Mullens found that in dairy and poultry farms, infected houseflies died at dusk on the cool end of the barn — the fungus prefers lower temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning, living flies would warm themselves in the first rays of sun, which fall right where the flies died the night before. The fungus had spent all night shooting out spores. Come morning, those spores started shooting out secondary spores that infected the living flies that had come to warm up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precision of the fungus’ clock was “very neat,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949555\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949555\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_FLIES_RUN_NEAR_FUNGUS-INFECTED_FRUIT_FLY_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These flies are in the wrong place at the wrong time: They could get infected with spores shooting out from the infected dead fly. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Scientists believe that getting the fly to point its wings up helps the fungus spread its spores. If the fly climbed high enough, the spores might be dispersed by the wind. And there’s an added bonus for the fungus in keeping the fly’s wings up. In houseflies, scientists have observed males mating with infected female cadavers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the fat females are especially attractive for the males,” said Mullens. Those males carry off some spores and spread them around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nature, \u003cem>Entomophthora muscae\u003c/em> can be lethal to large groups of flies in the fall, when the cooler temperatures that the fungus prefers have started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t worry — the fungus doesn’t hurt humans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very unlikely that a similar fungus could zombify people,” said Elya. “Not only do we run much warmer than an average fly, we can control our bodily temperature to kill invaders. We also have an adaptive immune system, which is good at amplifying responses to specific invaders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mullens and other researchers tried to figure out how the fungus might be put to use as a biological control for flies in homes and farms. But the spores are short-lived, fragile and difficult to grow in the lab, which has made it impossible to bottle them up and use them as an insecticide. And a housefly lives about as long as it takes the fungus to incubate anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1949573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1949573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/10/DL_618ZombieFruitFlies_DEAD_FRUIT_FLIES_W_FUNGUS_OOZING-e1571448430693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Could this fungus kill the pesky flies in your kitchen? Researchers have tried to harness the fungus as a biological control, but its spores — which have coated this petri dish in a lab at Harvard — are short-lived and fragile. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot more efficient ways to kill flies, and faster,” said Mullens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, researchers are imagining ways to put this fly-killer to work for humans. One possible scenario would be to plant the cadavers of fungus-covered flies in a farm while they’re still spewing spores and attracting living flies to them with foul-smelling bait.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that’s a horror-movie plot if there ever was one.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1949314/this-killer-fungus-turns-flies-into-zombies","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_2874","science_30","science_86"],"tags":["science_1970","science_3315","science_2544"],"featImg":"science_1949550","label":"science_1935"},"science_1931350":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1931350","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1931350","score":null,"sort":[1536878219000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"watch-flapping-robot-sheds-light-on-how-fruit-flies-move","title":"WATCH: Flapping Robot Sheds Light On How Fruit Flies Move","publishDate":1536878219,"format":"aside","headTitle":"WATCH: Flapping Robot Sheds Light On How Fruit Flies Move | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEhu-FePBC0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scientists in the Netherlands tried to figure out how to build a super-agile flying robot, they took inspiration from one of nature’s most acrobatic flyers: The humble fruit fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by building this robot, they’ve gained new insights into how the fly carries out one of its flashiest maneuvers.[contextly_sidebar id=”nE6ftGB2mfu8h31ka2UZ5Q7cfJLyNXwM”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The robot is called the DelFly Nimble. Its wingspan is about a foot wide. It has four wings that can beat at 17 times per second, which appear very delicate because they’re made of the same material as space blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the DelFly Nimble in action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, it does \u003cem>not\u003c/em> have a tail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The previous designs, they always had a tail, like a conventional airplane tail,” said the robot’s main designer Matěj Karásek. He’s based at the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and he and his colleagues released their \u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aau7350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings on Thursday in Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous generations, he said, flapping wings propelled the robot forward while the tail helped to steer and stabilize it. The DelFly Nimble is completely controlled by the wings. “The challenge was actually integrate the control into the wing motion, and that’s what we achieved,” Karásek said.[contextly_sidebar id=”Pbwe7U1XcURTsTqZt7XJ4Mr2mBuPUfyw”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wings can each move individually or rotate around the center axis — the body of the robot — in order to maximize the machine’s agility. It can either be controlled manually or the researchers can pre-program the maneuvers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The robot can hover for about five minutes on a full battery, or fly for more than a kilometer, Karásek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the scientists built it and are controlling all the movements, they can use it to learn more about how fruit flies actually carry out their breakneck maneuvers. That caught the attention of biologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first saw the robot flying, I was amazed at how closely its flight resembled that of insects, especially when maneuvering,” experimental zoologist Florian Muijres of Wageningen University & Research said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers tried to get the robot to replicate how they think fruit flies move during what they call “high-agility escape manoeuvres, such as those used when we try to swat them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as they replicated what Karásek calls a “rapid banked turn,” they noticed something interesting – a “new passive aerodynamic mechanism” that helps the fly steer. Basically, the fly is effectively turning around three different axes around the body as it quickly changes direction. But Karásek says they found that one of those three rotations happened passively, so they didn’t actually need to program the robot to turn on that axis.[contextly_sidebar id=”FfWjXAwJB3HRRf4FT3bKQiD2ejnMkVsj”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karásek sees this type of robot carrying out all kinds of tasks in the future. They want to make them smaller, and more autonomous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it is now, it can already carry a small camera that can send live video feed to the operator,” he said. “Our goal is to make them aware of what is around them, able to avoid hitting obstacles or flying into humans, make them able to explore remote areas, fly through openings like windows and doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the long term vision is to have them working in a swarm to complete tasks, such as pollinating an entire greenhouse or completing a search and rescue operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH%3A+Flapping+Robot+Sheds+Light+On+How+Fruit+Flies+Move&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The scientists were inspired by the super-agile fruit fly. And by designing this robot, they've figured out some of the mysteries of one of the fly's fanciest maneuvers. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704927492,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":630},"headData":{"title":"WATCH: Flapping Robot Sheds Light On How Fruit Flies Move | KQED","description":"The scientists were inspired by the super-agile fruit fly. And by designing this robot, they've figured out some of the mysteries of one of the fly's fanciest maneuvers. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"WATCH: Flapping Robot Sheds Light On How Fruit Flies Move","datePublished":"2018-09-13T22:36:59.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T22:58:12.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"source":"Technology","sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Henri Werij","nprByline":"Merrit Kennedy, NPR","nprImageAgency":"TU Delft ","nprStoryId":"647390261","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=647390261&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2018/09/13/647390261/watch-flapping-robot-sheds-light-on-how-fruit-flies-move?ft=nprml&f=647390261","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:28:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:02:41 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:28:12 -0400","path":"/science/1931350/watch-flapping-robot-sheds-light-on-how-fruit-flies-move","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/CEhu-FePBC0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/CEhu-FePBC0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>As scientists in the Netherlands tried to figure out how to build a super-agile flying robot, they took inspiration from one of nature’s most acrobatic flyers: The humble fruit fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And by building this robot, they’ve gained new insights into how the fly carries out one of its flashiest maneuvers.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The robot is called the DelFly Nimble. Its wingspan is about a foot wide. It has four wings that can beat at 17 times per second, which appear very delicate because they’re made of the same material as space blankets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take a look at the DelFly Nimble in action:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, it does \u003cem>not\u003c/em> have a tail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The previous designs, they always had a tail, like a conventional airplane tail,” said the robot’s main designer Matěj Karásek. He’s based at the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and he and his colleagues released their \u003ca href=\"http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aau7350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings on Thursday in Science\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous generations, he said, flapping wings propelled the robot forward while the tail helped to steer and stabilize it. The DelFly Nimble is completely controlled by the wings. “The challenge was actually integrate the control into the wing motion, and that’s what we achieved,” Karásek said.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wings can each move individually or rotate around the center axis — the body of the robot — in order to maximize the machine’s agility. It can either be controlled manually or the researchers can pre-program the maneuvers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The robot can hover for about five minutes on a full battery, or fly for more than a kilometer, Karásek said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because the scientists built it and are controlling all the movements, they can use it to learn more about how fruit flies actually carry out their breakneck maneuvers. That caught the attention of biologists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first saw the robot flying, I was amazed at how closely its flight resembled that of insects, especially when maneuvering,” experimental zoologist Florian Muijres of Wageningen University & Research said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers tried to get the robot to replicate how they think fruit flies move during what they call “high-agility escape manoeuvres, such as those used when we try to swat them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as they replicated what Karásek calls a “rapid banked turn,” they noticed something interesting – a “new passive aerodynamic mechanism” that helps the fly steer. Basically, the fly is effectively turning around three different axes around the body as it quickly changes direction. But Karásek says they found that one of those three rotations happened passively, so they didn’t actually need to program the robot to turn on that axis.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karásek sees this type of robot carrying out all kinds of tasks in the future. They want to make them smaller, and more autonomous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As it is now, it can already carry a small camera that can send live video feed to the operator,” he said. “Our goal is to make them aware of what is around them, able to avoid hitting obstacles or flying into humans, make them able to explore remote areas, fly through openings like windows and doors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the long term vision is to have them working in a swarm to complete tasks, such as pollinating an entire greenhouse or completing a search and rescue operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=WATCH%3A+Flapping+Robot+Sheds+Light+On+How+Fruit+Flies+Move&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1931350/watch-flapping-robot-sheds-light-on-how-fruit-flies-move","authors":["byline_science_1931350"],"categories":["science_89","science_35","science_40"],"tags":["science_3315","science_388","science_461"],"featImg":"science_1931351","label":"source_science_1931350"},"science_1494923":{"type":"posts","id":"science_1494923","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"science","id":"1494923","score":null,"sort":[1490706000000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"these-fighting-fruit-flies-are-superheroes-of-brain-science","title":"These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science","publishDate":1490706000,"format":"video","headTitle":"These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":1935,"site":"science"},"content":"\u003cp>[dl_subscribe]Neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer likes to watch animals fight. But these aren’t the kind of fights that could get him arrested – no roosters or pit bulls are involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopfer watches fruit flies. Very close up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny insects are the size of a pinhead, with big red eyes, golden translucent bodies and iridescent wings. For flies, they’re quite handsome. But you probably have only ever seen them flying around an overripe piece of fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the “Fly Behavior” room at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, Hoopfer places pairs of male fruit flies in tiny glass chambers. When they start fighting, they look like martial arts practitioners: They stand face to face and tip each other over; they lunge, roll around and even toss each other, sumo-wrestler style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_TOSS_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1502413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_TOSS_720.gif\" alt=\"These fighting fruit flies are helping researchers at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, understand what nerve cells are activated in the brain during bouts of aggression.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These fighting fruit flies are helping researchers at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, understand what nerve cells are activated in the brain during bouts of aggression. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this isn’t about entertainment. Hoopfer is trying to understand how the brain works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have regularly used fruit flies as research subjects since 1910, when Columbia University biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan discovered a mutant white-eyed fly among his normal red-eyed flies and used the discovery to describe how genes get passed on from generation to generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"A mutant white-eyed fruit fly like the one on the left helped biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1910 figure out how genes get passed on from generation to generation. Normally, fruit flies have red eyes.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mutant white-eyed fruit fly like the one on the left helped biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1910 figure out how genes get passed on from generation to generation. Normally, fruit flies have red eyes. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More recently, fruit flies are helping scientists understand human diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. They can do this because they’re a simpler version of us. They have about the same number of genes: 20,000 or so. About 75 percent of the genes that make humans sick are found, in a very similar form, in fruit flies. These insects reproduce quickly and are cheap to keep in the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’re helping scientists create a map of the brain that shows what groups of neurons control social behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fruit fly is a compact system,” said neuroscientist David Anderson, who oversees the lab in which Hoopfer works. “It’s simpler in that the number of neurons it has is a lot smaller. We take advantage that there are only about 100,000 neurons in a fly’s brain, compared to 100 billion neurons in a human brain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the aggressive fruit flies at Caltech fight, Hoopfer and his colleagues monitor which parts of their brains the flies are using. The researchers can see clusters of neurons lighting up. In the future, they hope this can help our understanding of conditions that tap into human emotional states, like depression or addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flies when they fight, they fight at different intensities. And once they start fighting they continue fighting for a while; this state persists. These are all things that are similar to (human) emotional states,” said Hoopfer. “For example, there’s this scale of emotions where you can be a little bit annoyed and that can scale up to being very angry. If somebody cuts you off in traffic you might get angry and that lasts for a little while. So your emotion lasts longer than the initial stimulus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circuits in our brains that make us stay mad, for example, could hold the key to developing better treatments for mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these neuropsychiatric disorders, like depression, addiction, schizophrenia, the drugs that we have to treat them, we don’t really understand exactly how they are acting at the level of circuits in the brain,” said Hoopfer. “They help in some cases the symptoms that you want to treat. But they also cause a lot of side effects. So what we’d ideally like are drugs that can act on the specific neurons and circuits in the brain that are responsible for depression and for the symptoms of depression that we want to treat, and not ones that control other things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"At Caltech, neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer puts on special glasses to protect his eyes from the red light he will flash on his research fruit flies. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Caltech, neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer puts on special glasses to protect his eyes from the red light he will flash on his research fruit flies. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer, at Caltech, flashes a red light at a pair of male fruit flies housed in a tiny glass chamber. The light activates a cluster of neurons in the flies’ brains and they start to fight.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer, at Caltech, flashes a red light at a pair of male fruit flies housed in a tiny glass chamber. The light activates a cluster of neurons in the flies’ brains and they start to fight. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the fly room, Hoopfer flashes a pair of male fruit flies with a red light. He has genetically altered them to be sensitive to the light. It activates a cluster of neurons in the flies’ brains and they start to fight almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when he changes the intensity of the red light, they do something very different. They lift and vibrate just one wing, a sign that they’re courting the other fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we activate the neurons a lot, they’ll do courtship behavior,” said Hoopfer, “whereas when we activate the neurons weakly, they get aggressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"To flirt, fruit flies lift and vibrate one wing. Researchers at Caltech discovered that the same group of neurons controls both flirting and fighting. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To flirt, fruit flies lift and vibrate one wing. Researchers at Caltech discovered that the same group of neurons controls both flirting and fighting. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The researchers were surprised to see that the same neurons controlled such different behaviors. What do fighting and flirting have in common? In both, flies are pretty hot and bothered; these neurons control something like emotional arousal. Hoopfer and his colleagues are interested precisely in circuits like these that control a constellation of social behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s evidence that mice brains have neurons that do something similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the mouse, when you activate them a lot, the mouse will fight,” said Hoopfer. “They’ll attack a rubber glove. It’s interesting, the parallel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even though a fly – or a mouse, for that matter – isn’t the same as a human, this tiny insect could help pinpoint circuits in the human brain that work in a similar way as the fly’s circuits do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe there are certain ways that evolution has solved these basic problems of how to control behavior and internal states that are associated with behaviors,” said Hoopfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_ROLL_720-1.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1502416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_ROLL_720-1.gif\" alt=\"Fruit flies fight as part of brain research at Caltech.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fruit flies fight as part of brain research at Caltech. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers hope that a more precise knowledge of the human brain – brought on by an understanding of the fruit fly’s brain – could one day lead to the development of better drugs to treat depression and other mental illnesses. But disorders like depression are complex, cautions Anderson, and nobody should expect new treatments anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, clues are coming from some of the most simple organisms. So the next time you find a fruit fly on your piece of banana, you might want to think twice before swatting it.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fruit flies battling like martial arts masters could one day help improve treatment of mental illness.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704928928,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1191},"headData":{"title":"These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science | KQED","description":"Fruit flies battling like martial arts masters could one day help improve treatment of mental illness.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"These Fighting Fruit Flies Are Superheroes of Brain Science","datePublished":"2017-03-28T13:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-10T23:22:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"videoEmbed":"https://youtu.be/yvd3X1N0jUU","sticky":false,"path":"/science/1494923/these-fighting-fruit-flies-are-superheroes-of-brain-science","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"dl_subscribe","attributes":{"named":{"label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer likes to watch animals fight. But these aren’t the kind of fights that could get him arrested – no roosters or pit bulls are involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoopfer watches fruit flies. Very close up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tiny insects are the size of a pinhead, with big red eyes, golden translucent bodies and iridescent wings. For flies, they’re quite handsome. But you probably have only ever seen them flying around an overripe piece of fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the “Fly Behavior” room at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, Hoopfer places pairs of male fruit flies in tiny glass chambers. When they start fighting, they look like martial arts practitioners: They stand face to face and tip each other over; they lunge, roll around and even toss each other, sumo-wrestler style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502413\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_TOSS_720.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1502413\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_TOSS_720.gif\" alt=\"These fighting fruit flies are helping researchers at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, understand what nerve cells are activated in the brain during bouts of aggression.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These fighting fruit flies are helping researchers at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, understand what nerve cells are activated in the brain during bouts of aggression. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But this isn’t about entertainment. Hoopfer is trying to understand how the brain works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists have regularly used fruit flies as research subjects since 1910, when Columbia University biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan discovered a mutant white-eyed fly among his normal red-eyed flies and used the discovery to describe how genes get passed on from generation to generation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"A mutant white-eyed fruit fly like the one on the left helped biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1910 figure out how genes get passed on from generation to generation. Normally, fruit flies have red eyes.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_MUTANT_AND_NORMAL_FRUIT_FLIES-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mutant white-eyed fruit fly like the one on the left helped biologist Thomas Hunt Morgan in 1910 figure out how genes get passed on from generation to generation. Normally, fruit flies have red eyes. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More recently, fruit flies are helping scientists understand human diseases like cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. They can do this because they’re a simpler version of us. They have about the same number of genes: 20,000 or so. About 75 percent of the genes that make humans sick are found, in a very similar form, in fruit flies. These insects reproduce quickly and are cheap to keep in the lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, they’re helping scientists create a map of the brain that shows what groups of neurons control social behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fruit fly is a compact system,” said neuroscientist David Anderson, who oversees the lab in which Hoopfer works. “It’s simpler in that the number of neurons it has is a lot smaller. We take advantage that there are only about 100,000 neurons in a fly’s brain, compared to 100 billion neurons in a human brain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the aggressive fruit flies at Caltech fight, Hoopfer and his colleagues monitor which parts of their brains the flies are using. The researchers can see clusters of neurons lighting up. In the future, they hope this can help our understanding of conditions that tap into human emotional states, like depression or addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flies when they fight, they fight at different intensities. And once they start fighting they continue fighting for a while; this state persists. These are all things that are similar to (human) emotional states,” said Hoopfer. “For example, there’s this scale of emotions where you can be a little bit annoyed and that can scale up to being very angry. If somebody cuts you off in traffic you might get angry and that lasts for a little while. So your emotion lasts longer than the initial stimulus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Circuits in our brains that make us stay mad, for example, could hold the key to developing better treatments for mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these neuropsychiatric disorders, like depression, addiction, schizophrenia, the drugs that we have to treat them, we don’t really understand exactly how they are acting at the level of circuits in the brain,” said Hoopfer. “They help in some cases the symptoms that you want to treat. But they also cause a lot of side effects. So what we’d ideally like are drugs that can act on the specific neurons and circuits in the brain that are responsible for depression and for the symptoms of depression that we want to treat, and not ones that control other things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502534\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502534\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"At Caltech, neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer puts on special glasses to protect his eyes from the red light he will flash on his research fruit flies. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_Eric_Hoopfer-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Caltech, neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer puts on special glasses to protect his eyes from the red light he will flash on his research fruit flies. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502307\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"Neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer, at Caltech, flashes a red light at a pair of male fruit flies housed in a tiny glass chamber. The light activates a cluster of neurons in the flies’ brains and they start to fight.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLIES_UNDER_RED_LIGHT03-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Neuroscientist Eric Hoopfer, at Caltech, flashes a red light at a pair of male fruit flies housed in a tiny glass chamber. The light activates a cluster of neurons in the flies’ brains and they start to fight. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the fly room, Hoopfer flashes a pair of male fruit flies with a red light. He has genetically altered them to be sensitive to the light. It activates a cluster of neurons in the flies’ brains and they start to fight almost immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when he changes the intensity of the red light, they do something very different. They lift and vibrate just one wing, a sign that they’re courting the other fly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we activate the neurons a lot, they’ll do courtship behavior,” said Hoopfer, “whereas when we activate the neurons weakly, they get aggressive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1502306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-1020x574.jpg\" alt=\"To flirt, fruit flies lift and vibrate one wing. Researchers at Caltech discovered that the same group of neurons controls both flirting and fighting. \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_FRUIT_FLY_FLIRTS-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To flirt, fruit flies lift and vibrate one wing. Researchers at Caltech discovered that the same group of neurons controls both flirting and fighting. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The researchers were surprised to see that the same neurons controlled such different behaviors. What do fighting and flirting have in common? In both, flies are pretty hot and bothered; these neurons control something like emotional arousal. Hoopfer and his colleagues are interested precisely in circuits like these that control a constellation of social behaviors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s evidence that mice brains have neurons that do something similar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the mouse, when you activate them a lot, the mouse will fight,” said Hoopfer. “They’ll attack a rubber glove. It’s interesting, the parallel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even though a fly – or a mouse, for that matter – isn’t the same as a human, this tiny insect could help pinpoint circuits in the human brain that work in a similar way as the fly’s circuits do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe there are certain ways that evolution has solved these basic problems of how to control behavior and internal states that are associated with behaviors,” said Hoopfer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1502416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_ROLL_720-1.gif\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1502416\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/DL_407FruitFlies_ROLL_720-1.gif\" alt=\"Fruit flies fight as part of brain research at Caltech.\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fruit flies fight as part of brain research at Caltech. \u003ccite>(Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Researchers hope that a more precise knowledge of the human brain – brought on by an understanding of the fruit fly’s brain – could one day lead to the development of better drugs to treat depression and other mental illnesses. But disorders like depression are complex, cautions Anderson, and nobody should expect new treatments anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, clues are coming from some of the most simple organisms. So the next time you find a fruit fly on your piece of banana, you might want to think twice before swatting it.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/science/1494923/these-fighting-fruit-flies-are-superheroes-of-brain-science","authors":["6186"],"series":["science_1935"],"categories":["science_2874","science_30","science_39","science_86"],"tags":["science_3315"],"featImg":"science_1500548","label":"science_1935"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. Together in Possible, Hoffman and Finger lead enlightening discussions about building a brighter collective future. The show features interviews with visionary guests like Trevor Noah, Sam Altman and Janette Sadik-Khan. Possible paints an optimistic portrait of the world we can create through science, policy, business, art and our shared humanity. 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