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400 eggs (embryos) are laid at a time in rotting fruit PHOTO: Schmidt, John. (2004) ''Drosophila melanogaster'' egg. (Photograph). Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster#/media/File:Drosophila_egg.png
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Egg is hatched after 12-15 hours
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Larva is growing and molting
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Larva keeps going and enters the third stage of instar larva
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Then the larvae encapsulate in the puparium and undergoes a four-day-long metamorphosis. PHOTO: Beers, E. (2010, July) Spotted wing drosophila pupa (photograph). Retrieved from: http://jenny.tfrec.wsu.edu/opm/displayspecies.php?pn=165
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The average natural life span of fruit fly adults in optimal temperatures is 40 to 50 days PHOTO: Fruit Fly. (photograph). Retrieved from: https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/advanced-model-neurodegeneration-studies-fruit-fly-drosophila-melanogaster
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