From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Sun Jan 22 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!msunews!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au!deakin.edu.au!drierac From: drierac@deakin.edu.au (Chris Driver) Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: Diet Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 13:16:57 Organization: Deakin University Lines: 13 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: pc-rbp161.sci.deakin.edu.au X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Does anyone have any ideas on what Drosophila melanogaster and simulans eat in the wild, if eat is the right word. I would really like something better than fermenting juices of whatever and yeast of uncertain taxonomy. The data I have seen is not particularly explicit in terms of specific nutrients, and one has to make some assumptions. I imagine that the diet is higher in alcohol than the laboratory diet, probably higher in fat, and may well be very low in available carbohydrate. Chris Driver, Ph D School of Biology and Chemistry, Rusden Campus Deakin University 662 Blackburn Rd Clayton, VIC, 3168 AUSTRALIA .