Fruit fly may refer to several organisms:
- Tephritidae, a family of large, colorfully marked flies including agricultural pests
- Vidalia (fruit fly), a genus
- Drosophilidae, a family of smaller flies, including:
- Drosophila, the genus of small fruit flies and vinegar flies
- Drosophila melanogaster or common fruit fly, an important model organism in modern biology
- Drosophila suzukii or Asian fruit fly, native to southeast Asia and an invasive species in North America
- Bactrocera oleae or Olive fruit fly, native to the Eastern Hemisphere and an invasive species in North America
Fruit fly may also refer to:
- Fruit Fly (film), 2009 film directed by H. P. Mendoza
- LGBT slang with a meaning similar to fag hag
Famous quotes containing the words fruit and/or fly:
“But we still remember ... above all, the cool, free aspect of the wild apple trees, generously proffering their fruit to us, though still green and crude,—the hard, round, glossy fruit, which, if not ripe, still was not poison, but New English too, brought hither, its ancestors, by ours once. These gentler trees imparted a half-civilized and twilight aspect to the otherwise barbarian land.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)