James Dunbar / Close up of a Cryptic mantis (Sibylla pretiosia) catching and eating a fruit fly, UK. Captive.

James Dunbar / Close up of a Cryptic mantis (Sibylla pretiosia) catching and eating a fruit fly, UK. Captive.

Steve Downer / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) close-up of eye.

Solvin Zankl / Research scientist Dr. Anne von Philipsborn sorting a laboratory culture of Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austri...

Solvin Zankl / Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture Curly (wings turn up) mutant, the mutations are used as genetic markers in gene research, Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Mol...

Solvin Zankl / Sorting Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture embryos for DNA injection at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria.

Solvin Zankl / Laboratory culture of Wild type Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria

Solvin Zankl / Wild Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria [focus stacking]

Solvin Zankl / Wild Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria [focus stacking]

Solvin Zankl / Wild Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria [focus staking]

Visuals Unlimited / Close up of proboscis of Fruit fly (Drosophila sp) SEM X350

Visuals Unlimited / Close up of a Fruit Fly (Drosphila) compound eye. SEM X2500

Visuals Unlimited / Fruit Fly (Drosophila melanogaster) an important laboratory organism in genetics. SEM X75

Linda Pitkin / Common stump brittlestem funfi (Psathyrella piluliformis), Abinger Roughs NT, Surrey, England, October.

Konrad Wothe / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) male, Germany, August.

Doug Wechsler / Vinegar flies / Fruit flies (Drosophila sp.) feeding on fermented sap or alcohol flux, Fort Washington State Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA, June.

James Dunbar / Close up of a Cryptic mantis (Sibylla pretiosia) catching and eating a fruit fly, UK. Captive.

James Dunbar / Close up of a Cryptic mantis (Sibylla pretiosia) catching and eating a fruit fly, UK. Captive.

James Dunbar / Close up of a Cryptic mantis (Sibylla pretiosia) catching and eating a fruit fly, UK. Captive.

James Dunbar / Close up of a Cryptic mantis (Sibylla pretiosia) catching and eating a fruit fly, UK. Captive.

Floris van Breugel / High speed exposure of a Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) taken through a microscope. In this image flight muscles express a genetically engineered protein called GCaMP, which fluoresces green in t...

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) female (left) and male (right) California Institute of Technology, USA, December 2016.

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) tethered in LED illuminated chamber which stimulates moving visual patterns. Behind the fly is a camera, which is used to record its wing beat amplitude – a rough m...

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) tethered to a tungsten pin. Despite not going anywhere, the fly will flap its wings, and respond to visual scenery as if it were in fact moving. This is a common ap...

Andy Sands / Common stump brittlestem (Psathyrella piluliformis) Buckinghamshire, England, UK, October. Focus stacked image

Steve Downer / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) cleaning itself on apple and regurgitating. UK

Steve Downer / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) reguritating on apple and walking away.

Steve Downer / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) grooming itself on apple. UK.

Steve Downer / Close-up larva of Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) showing mouth parts. UK

Steve Downer / Close-up larva of Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) showing internal structure, UK

Steve Downer / Larva of Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) feeding on apple, UK.

Michael Durham / Female Spotted wing fruit fly (Drosophila suzukii) in flight over a strawberry, Oregon, USA, March.

MYN / Joao P. Burini / Fruit fly (Drosophila) Sao Paulo, Brazil. meetyourneighbours.net project

Stephen Dalton / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) just taken off from melon, controlled conditions.

Stephen Dalton / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) in flight having just taken-off from strawberry, controlled conditions.

Stephen Dalton / Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on rotting strawberry, England, UK, August

Stephen Dalton / Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on egg-shell, England, UK, August

Stephen Dalton / Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) on rotting strawberry, England, UK, August

Floris van Breugel / Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) in a fruit bowl. The fly was tethered for this image (tether removed digitally)

Mark Payne-Gill / Hawiian Fruit fly (Drosophila Clavisetae) profile portrait, taken under controlled conditions

Mark Payne-Gill / Hawiian Fruit fly (Drosophila Clavisetae) male mating display, taken under controlled conditions

Mark Payne-Gill / Hawiian Fruit fly (Drosophila Clavisetae) mating ritual, taken under controlled conditions

Mark Payne-Gill / Hawiian Fruit fly (Drosophila Clavisetae) mating ritual, taken under controlled conditions

Rod Williams / Wildtype Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) mating on leaf, South London, UK, October

Solvin Zankl / Research scientist sorting a laboratory culture of Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) at the Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria, October 2010

Solvin Zankl / Common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture of flies demonstrating various mutations at Vienna Drosophila RNAi Center, Institute for Molecular Pathology, Austria, September 2010

Solvin Zankl / Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture of flies showing Yellow (yellow pigmentation), Curly (wings curl away from body) and Orange (less red pigmentation in eyes) mutations. T...

Solvin Zankl / Common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) laboratory culture of flies showing Yellow (yellow pigmentation), Curly (wings curl away from body) and Orange (less red pigmentation in eyes) mutations. T...