From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Wed Nov 16 22:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!charlie.lif.icnet.uk!mac030004.ox.icnet.uk!user From: d-horowicz@icrf.icnet.uk (David Ish-Horowicz) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Keeping lab Drosophila out of the lab cafeteria Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 12:39:26 +0000 Organization: ICRF Developmental Biology Unit Lines: 13 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: mac030004.ox.icnet.uk Our main labs in London are complaining that laboratory Drosophila have found their way to the cafeteria where they cluster around the fruit-juice dispensers from where they are dispensed into peoples' drinks, around fruit (surprise, surprise) and in the beer at the bar. Apparently, they are indeed laboratory flies, despite the fly labs' being about three floors away from the kitchens. The caterers are furious and want flies banned from the building. Have any other labs ever suffered from this problem and, if so, is there a solution (other than the obvious reply "so what")? David Ish-Horowicz ICRF Developmental Biology Unit, Oxford d_horowicz@icrf.icnet.uk .