Drosophila Subobscura (IMAGE)

Duke University

Drosophila Subobscura

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First spotted in the US in the early 1980s, a sexually confused fruit fly called Drosophila subobscura may have contributed to a collapse in native fruit flies through misdirected mating attempts.

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Photo by Malcolm Storey, <a target="_blank"href="http://www.bioimages.org.uk/">http://www.bioimages.org.uk/</a>

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