Here’s a fact that will haunt your dreams: a single female fruit fly can lay up to 500 eggs in her lifetime. And those eggs? They hatch into larvae in just 24 hours. That means the fly you see today has a great-great-grandchild ready to steal your salsa by Tuesday. These insects are the efficiency experts of the bug world.
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But here’s the weird part: they don’t need a lot of space. They’ll lay eggs in a single drop of forgotten balsamic vinegar on your counter. I’m not joking—one study found that a puddle the size of a dime can support an entire civilization of fruit flies. If they had passports, your kitchen would be a sovereign nation.
