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- This page contains pictures and information about Vinegar Flies
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Vinegar Flies are small in size. They usually have red-eyes and yellowish
body colour. They often attracted to fermenting or rotting fruit.
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- Most of the larvae are tiny maggots that develop quickly in rotting fruit.
Some are leaf miner.
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- Common Vinegar Fly
 - Drosophila sp., body length 6mm
- Picture was taken in Yugarapul Park during early summer in evening. The fly was also found in a rainforest near Mt Nebo attracted by dropping
on leaf. Please check this page for more information.
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- Orange and Black Vinegar Fly
 - ? Drosophila sp., body length 6mm
- This fly is easily found in the dense forest in Yugarapul Park. We have
more pictures in this page.
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- Reference:
- 1. Australian Insects, An Introductory Handbook - Keith C. McKeown,
1945, p231.
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