Okay that’s what I was thinking. But was thrown off by the clock. Fruit flies have a short life but longer than 6 hours so it didn’t really make sense for them to die exactly at the same place.
I thought choice paralysis (from having to think about their future) made them freeze there and die from starvation or something
I think OP is confusing fruit flies with mayflies, some of which really only live for a single day as flies. Some of them even live only for a few minutes as flies. E.g. Oligoneuriella rhenana only lives for about 40 minutes in their adult form.
But they live much longer, some of them up to 4 years, in their non-adult forms.
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Okay that’s what I was thinking. But was thrown off by the clock. Fruit flies have a short life but longer than 6 hours so it didn’t really make sense for them to die exactly at the same place.
I thought choice paralysis (from having to think about their future) made them freeze there and die from starvation or something
(It’s 30 minutes.)
I’m just gonna lay down here and die like them flies :)
I think OP is confusing fruit flies with mayflies, some of which really only live for a single day as flies. Some of them even live only for a few minutes as flies. E.g. Oligoneuriella rhenana only lives for about 40 minutes in their adult form.
But they live much longer, some of them up to 4 years, in their non-adult forms.