1. Life cycle CLIP

2. Wild Type
The abdomen of males bear a round terminus exhibiting a brownish genital apparatus on the the ventral side.
Females have a pointed abdomen that displays a less noticable genital apparatus on the ventral side
The females are on average bigger than males

5. A very certain feature to distinguish males from females are the sex combs

7. White Eye Fruit Fly Cross

8. How do you work with them?
Put the vial in the freezer – check on the flies every 30 secs-1 minute until they are “sleeping”
Pour the flies you want into the petri dish.
Place petri dish on ice pack.
Place both under microscope.
If they start to wake up – put them back in the freezer.