Different kind of flies
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Right, just like a mantis, most have to breed with the same species, but not all are that way, take fruit flies for instance,,,, 
+1Right, just like a mantis, most have to breed with the same species, but not all are that way, take fruit flies for instance,,,,
Yes, just like some roach species can mate and produce hybrids.
PhilinYuma
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Let's try that again, MG! The fruit flies that Hibiscusmile is probably thinking of, like "Turkish gliders" and "wingless" and "flightless mels are mutations of the same species. There is relatively little cross breeding among the genus Muscidae. Cockroaches that cross breed are always, so far as I know, in the same genus, the next group up from species. BBs and HFs are not in the same genus nor even in the same family, the group above (and larger than) Genus. Houseflies are Muscidae and Bluebottles, Calliphoridae. The next group up is Order, and both types of fly are in the order Diptera or two-winged flies, but no, they will certainly not cross breed.Here is a refresher on the old group classification. We now have Super Orders, Sections and the like, or even clades, but the following is still often used:
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
And the most famous mnemonic, of course, is:
King Phillip Came Over For Great Sex
I'm sure that we must have done something as memorable as this before!
King Phillip Came Over For Great Sex
I'm sure that we must have done something as memorable as this before!
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:blink: :lol: :tt2: knew u were lurking around for this one Phil!
Nice motto.Let's try that again, MG! The fruit flies that Hibiscusmile is probably thinking of, like "Turkish gliders" and "wingless" and "flightless mels are mutations of the same species. There is relatively little cross breeding among the genus Muscidae. Cockroaches that cross breed are always, so far as I know, in the same genus, the next group up from species. BBs and HFs are not in the same genus nor even in the same family, the group above (and larger than) Genus. Houseflies are Muscidae and Bluebottles, Calliphoridae. The next group up is Order, and both types of fly are in the order Diptera or two-winged flies, but no, they will certainly not cross breed.Here is a refresher on the old group classification. We now have Super Orders, Sections and the like, or even clades, but the following is still often used:
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
And the most famous mnemonic, of course, is:
King Phillip Came Over For Great Sex
I'm sure that we must have done something as memorable as this before!
babyfroggy
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lol! they didn't teach us that mnemonic in school, I like it
I prefer, King Philip came over for great SOUP!
PhilinYuma
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He did, but Rebecca has still not shared her sweet and sour soup recipe, http://mantidforum.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=20484
so he had to make do with the other while he was waiting, poor guy!
ok. Yours was interesting, but I hesitate to say, mine is better :tt2:
ps, Do you cook a lot Phil?
ok, hisserman, take the taste test!
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PhilinYuma
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Me too, though Yuma is not a great "gotta have some nice hot soup to warm me up" town!
I think that yours should taste better because it has beef in it, Rebecca, and I love beef!
And yes, I cook all my own food, It's cheaper; I know what's in it, and I can keep my weight within normal limits even though I love my Fry Daddy deep fryer! I used it to make sweet and sour pork, tonight. Yum!
Wow that sounds good.Me too, though Yuma is not a great "gotta have some nice hot soup to warm me up" town!
I think that yours should taste better because it has beef in it, Rebecca, and I love beef!
And yes, I cook all my own food, It's cheaper; I know what's in it, and I can keep my weight within normal limits even though I love my Fry Daddy deep fryer! I used it to make sweet and sour pork, tonight. Yum!
Dear me, sweet and sour pork! yum! home cooking does not keep the weight off here, hey go to soup thread, sense we are way off topic....
