http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/ Dive into the awe-inspiring, beautiful and quirky world of science news with award-winning writer Ed Yong. No previous experience required. Sat, 26 May 2012 10:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/comment-page-1/#comment-4824 Airin Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:54:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/#comment-4824 Very cool discovery! And I agree, this is the best kind of science! But why CO2? What benefit does the fly get from drinking it? I bet that other insects will end up having this sense, and the first place I would look is wasps.... Can't keep them away from a soda! Very cool discovery! And I agree, this is the best kind of science!
But why CO2? What benefit does the fly get from drinking it?
I bet that other insects will end up having this sense, and the first place I would look is wasps…. Can’t keep them away from a soda!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/comment-page-1/#comment-4823 Edgar Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:11:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/#comment-4823 the aerial path to smell CO2 and fly away could be a form to avoid ambushing vertebrates? the aerial path to smell CO2 and fly away could be a form to avoid ambushing vertebrates?

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/comment-page-1/#comment-4822 london vets Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:56:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/#comment-4822 How interesting! How interesting!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/comment-page-1/#comment-4821 Nathan Myers Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:50:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/07/29/fruit-flies-have-a-taste-for-fizzy-drinks/#comment-4821 This is the very best kind of science. I'll happily trade a hundred resolutions of scientific disputes for one entirely new discovery. This is the very best kind of science. I’ll happily trade a hundred resolutions of scientific disputes for one entirely new discovery.

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