UW News
Michael Dickinson
February 4, 2014
Fruit flies – fermented-fruit connoisseurs – are relentless party crashers
![Flies on banans and grapes](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/02/04185112/Original-fruit-fly-kitchen-fruit-20111228_0019Crop-150x150.jpg)
That fruit fly appearing moments after you poured that first glass of cabernet, has just used a poppy-seed-sized brain to conduct a finely-choreographed search and arrive in time for happy hour.