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.

Steve Downer / Zebra spider (Salticus scenicus) feeding on a fruit fly, controlled conditions.

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

Mark Moffett / Goat Fly (Phytalmia mouldsi) males clashing antlers while fighting, Queensland, Australia

Rod Williams / Spectacled berry fly (Anomoia purmunda) on Reed blade. Sutcliffe Park Nature Reserve, Eltham, London, England, UK. August.

Nigel Cattlin / Social pear sawfly (Neurotoma saltuum) gregarious larvae caterpillars on web tent with damaged leaves on a pear tree. England, UK.

Rod Williams / Celery Fly (Euleia heraclei) Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, London, England, UK. May.

Nick Upton / Gall fly / Greater fruit fly (Terellia longicauda) female on the unopened flowerhead of a Woolly thistle (Cirsium eriophorum), the host plant for its larvae, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, Jul...

Doug Gimesy / Wildlife rescuer and head of Fly-by-Night Bat Clinic, Tamsyn Hogarth, attempting to cut down a Grey-headed Flying-fox (Pteropus poliocephalus), that had become entangled in barbed-wire fencing in an o...

Heather Angel / Flies (Diptera) feeding on Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) fruit. Riverside Park beside Yangtze River, China.

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

Ernie Janes / Flesh fly (Sarcophaga sp) feeding on ripe plums.

Nick Upton / Great / Large pied hoverfly (Volucella pellucens) female feeding on a Bramble (Rubus fruticosus) flower, Wiltshire, UK, July.

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

Rod Williams / Tephritid fly (Terellia tussilaginis) Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, London, England, UK July 2016

James Dunbar / Jumping spider (Evarcha falcata). eating a fruit fly, captive.

James Dunbar / Jumping Spider (Evarcha falcata). eating a fruit fly, captive.

Kim Taylor / Burdock gall Fly (Terellia tussilaginis) female. Surrey, England, UK, July,

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...

Solvin Zankl / Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) male feeding on fruit a vector for the yellow fever virus, West Nile virus (WNV) , dengue fever and Chikungunya fever. Freiburg, Germany, August.

Nigel Cattlin / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) feeding on Orange fruit

Nigel Cattlin / Mediterranean fruit fly larva (Ceratitis capitata) in Peach (Prunus persica) larva in decomposing Peach (Prunus persica) fruit

Nigel Cattlin / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) feeding on Orange fruit. October.

Nigel Cattlin / Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Ceratitis capitata) larvae in a damaged Peach fruit (Prunus persica)

Jiri Lochman / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) larvae in apricot fruit Introduced pest species in Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) female laying eggs into a papaya fruit Introduced pest species in Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) feeding on unripe papaya fruit. Introduced pest species in Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) female laying eggs into a papaya fruit. Introduced pest species in Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) female laying eggs into a papaya fruit. Introduced pest species in Australia.

Jiri Lochman / Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) pupae. Introduced pest species in Australia.