# Fruit flies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [October 16, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829 "2003-10-16T18:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kingbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@kingbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingbrown)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/1 "2003-10-16T18:39:33Z")
I don’t think the fruit fly response really answered the question. Where do the fruit flies, who come in and lay eggs on my rotting fruit, come from? Are they always there or do they somehow make it up to the 20th floor of an apartment building by following their noses? ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/2 "2003-10-16T20:59:34Z")
Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, **kingbrown** , glad to have you with us. When you start a thread, it is helpful to other readers if you provide a link to the Staff Report that you are commenting on. Helps keep us all on the same page, avoid duplication, saves time for folks trying to locate the Staff Report, etc. No biggie, just so’s you’ll know for next time. In this case: [Where do fruitflies come from?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfruitfly.html) OK, so who’s gonna say: “When the daddy fruitfly loves the mommy fruitfly very much, they hug in a special way…” ? ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/3 "2003-10-17T04:47:13Z")
When the daddy fruitfly loves the mommy fruitfly very much, they hug in a special way and make baby fruit flies. You asked **Dex**. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/4 "2003-10-21T09:13:33Z")
Or … When the daddy fruitfly loves the mommy fruitfly very much, they hug in a special way and go looking on the Internet for baby fruit flies. 😃 Julie ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/5 "2003-10-21T09:14:54Z")
Which _should_ have read … When the daddy fruitfly loves the **daddy** fruitfly very much, they hug in a special way and go looking on the Internet for baby fruit flies. 😃 Duh! Julie ---
**Author:** ![barksbruisers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@barksbruisers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barksbruisers)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/6 "2003-10-22T14:44:29Z")
“Time flies like an arrow, fruitflies like a banana.” – Groucho Marx does this help any? ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fruit-flies/207829/7 "2003-10-22T15:12:01Z")
There are probably all kinds of insect bits and eggs on a lot of our food. Makes me a bit queasy (and I’m a country girl!) when I think about all the things that have walked/shat/eaten/made babies on my food. Wash, peel or cook. And don’t think about it too much.