From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Fri Nov 18 22:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!bhassan From: bhassan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bassem A Hassan) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Re: Keeping lab Drosophila out of the lab cafeteria Date: 19 Nov 1994 17:45:05 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3aldj1$mg@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu In article , David Ish-Horowicz wrote: >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")? We are the only fly lab at the biotech center here at Ohio State. We used to recieve constant complaints about flies in people's coffee mugs, culture plates >and labs and offices!! After many "tough luck" and "what do you want me to do?" type conversations, my advisor bought every lab on the floor a fly swatter >(sp?). Needless to say no one ever mentioned it again!!!!! seriously, though, we simply set up fly traps (liquid yeast in fly vials with narrow funnels to cover). I don't think it helped, it just convinced people that there is nothing that will stop the flies! :-) David Ish-Horowicz >ICRF Developmental Biology Unit, Oxford >d_horowicz@icrf.icnet.uk bassem. .