A fruit fly colony in the classroom? Yes, easy, fun, and flies won't invade your home. Drosophila are easy to capture, maintain, and use for experiments from genetics and developmental biology to biochemistry and animal behavior. An introductory fruit fly lesson teaches you how to start a fruit fly colony using household ingredients. Once you have a colony established, you have excellent experimental subjects for inquiry-based labs. Here you get the basic techniques for fruit fly husbandry. Plus