RE: Mediterranean Fruit Flies

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

Sara and others,

>Although I can't say for certain that this is true for fruit flies, >many 
>insects can lay eggs for quite a long time after fertilization >- a male 
>wouldn't have to make the trip, just a fertilized female.

This is according to what I learned about fruit flies long ago. The female 
only needs the male once and can then forget him (remember how the males 
afterwards also rapidly die off... ("femmes fatales").

:-)

Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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