From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Tue Oct 31 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov!news.msfc.nasa.gov!cs.utk.edu!gaia.ns.utk.edu!usenet From: Chris Boake Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: painting drosophila Date: 1 Nov 1995 20:54:40 GMT Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville Lines: 17 Message-ID: <478mqg$qrr@gaia.ns.utk.edu> References: <9509188140.AA814037274@gandalf.bio.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eco20.bio.utk.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: news:jonesc-2510951256390001@pandora.cshl.org >("Laurence D. MUELLER") wrote: > >> I am not an artist but rather am interested to hear if anyone has >> had success permanantly marking individual flies with paint or >> some other substance. I have used Testor's model paints successfully with a variety of insects. You'll need to practice for a while to get the correct drop size and tackiness of the paint. Suitable applicators include pointy toothpicks and some insect pins. Some behavioral biologists have probably painted little bitty flies; check references in behavioral journals. I can't recall a citation offhand, but you could try papers by T. Markow or L. Partridge. --Chris .