A few members are having a interesting discussion regarding 'wingless house flies' and the definition of 'vestigial'.
http://www.frogforum.net/food-feeder...use-flies.html

Some questions came up about fruit flies ( little buzzards )
So rather than hijack Lisa's house fly thread I started this one for the spin-off information on the FF.

Here's where we left off:

I posted a simple 'fruit fly 101' link - ( it has great information and diagrams )
Exhibit: Mutant Fruit Flies - Drosophila Genetics | Exploratorium

James stated"
"Curly" and "vestigial" are the two most commonly encountered "flightless" mutations

AND that there are others !! That got my attention.

Hopefully... James will have time to expand more on that. Thanks James

Resources:

Frog Forum article ( by John Care) : http://www.frogforum.net/content/fru...rosophila-143/

Another by Devin Edmonds : http://www.amphibiancare.com/frogs/a...ruitflies.html ( includes additional resources )

A favorite resource: FF102
http://eol.org/data_objects/475341