This week in science ( Fruit Flies Part 2 )

   This week in science we finally put in our spider in our habitat. When we first put the spider in the tank it was climbing up like if it was trying to escape but then it got used to its surroundings. We also took out some fruit flies from the jar they came in and we put them into another one to start the expirement. We solved the problem of how many eggs and adults will be born with 3 fruit flies in 3 weeks. After we solved the problem we made a poster and graphed our results.

   This week in science we learned how fruit flies reproduce and how long it takes for them to develop. I learned that every 16 days a fruit fly becomes a full adult where it can have babies. I also learned that a fruit fly may lay up to 20 eggs a day. The fruit fly process has four stages. First comes the egg, the comes the larva after the larva comes the pupa then finally u get the adult fruit fly.

   If i was to put 1 female amd 2 males fruit flies in a jar I expect to see to see 163 adults at the end of 3 weeks. Each female will lay 20 eggs a day. By day 14 those 20 eggs will become adults. Then everyday after day 14 20 adults will be born. So after day 21 we would have 420 eggs and 163 adults because we had to add the 3 from the start.
 

        This picture shows the fruit fly problem where you have 1 female and 2 males.