Moments ago this fly was knee deep in dog poo

Fruit Flies have more in common with you than you think. When offered a choice between liquid food that had been spiked with 15% ethanol or regular liquid food, the fruit flies chose to party. The fruit flies showed clear signs of intoxication, exhibiting a loss of coordination and hyperactivity. The series of studies did not show if their performance in bed decreased but the scientists did note that it was hard to measure intoxication levels because “the fruit flies were so small”. Uhhh.

 Earlier studies found that alcohol has profound physiological effects on fruit flies, but the new study is one of the first to offer flies the choice to drink. Anita Devineni and Ulrike Heberlein, both of the University of California, San Francisco, devised a fly-sized drinking device reminiscent of the water bottles in hamster cages. Flies held inside vials could sip from thin tubes holding either liquid food spiked with 15 percent ethanol or plain liquid food. The researchers measured the descent of the liquids inside each tube to get a readout of which food the flies preferred.

 In fact even when the researchers spiked the spiked punch with a nasty toxic chemical such as quinine the fruit flies continued to drink, despite the harm it was causing and the trail of broken relationships left behind. So remember children, always know your dealer, especially if he is wearing a lab coat. In other experiments with the fruit flies, they were deprived of alcohol and showed tell tale signs of a relapse once introduced with alcohol again. This shows taht you don’t have to feel bad about your problem drinking, alcohol effects all of gods wonderous creatures just the same.  But wow, sometimes walking can be hard enough drunk especially when your pushing someone in a wheelchair, I can’t even imagine flying while drunk.

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