PhilinYuma
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That makes as much sense to me as anything. I know that yeast is transmitted in that way.Can it travel on wild fruitflies, as eggs? Bugs have done stranger things.
That makes as much sense to me as anything. I know that yeast is transmitted in that way.Can it travel on wild fruitflies, as eggs? Bugs have done stranger things.
Interesting thought, though they'd have to survive more than pasteurization.I was thinking about this in bed last night (ok, so I have a problem). Could the eggs survive the pasteurization process? Meaning they are still in the vinegar. And then hatch later, or possibly hatch in the presence of food?
Vinegar eels are nematodes, so that's not an issue. Your useful observation supports Peter J.F.'s suggestion (post #19) that they come from eggs deposited first on the FF larvea and move firstonto the pupae and then on the eclosing flies, in the same way that we know that yeast spores can be transmitted. I posted an old article a while back in which the author sterilized ff pupae --without killing the flies inside -- and found that the medium used by the eclosed flies contained no introduced yeast, whereas a medium used by flies from unsterilized pupae did. This certainly solves the riddle of how they could have been carried in, let alone live in, pasteurized vinegar.Another paradigm: I have found that the vinegar eels are only in the cultures that contain the wild D. Melanogasters.
I have used the same apple cider vinegar in all of my cultures, the eels do not show up in the other cultures. So maybe they are not vinegar eels, but nematodes? Anyone have any input on that?
And my friends think I'm nuts for saying that all the UFOs that have been seen through out time contain starving mantids that are here to steal our natural resource...insects.Vinegar eels are nematodes, so that's not an issue. Your useful observation supports Peter J.F.'s suggestion (post #19) that they come from eggs deposited first on the FF larvea and move firstonto the pupae and then on the eclosing flies, in the same way that we know that yeast spores can be transmitted. I posted an old article a while back in which the author sterilized ff pupae --without killing the flies inside -- and found that the medium used by the eclosed flies contained no introduced yeast, whereas a medium used by flies from unsterilized pupae did. This certainly solves the riddle of how they could have been carried in, let alone live in, pasteurized vinegar.
Another possibility is that they were deposited on the flies by Intergalactic Space Nematodes (ISNs). They will sometimes try out their World Domination Scheme (WDS) by infecting something inconsequential like an FF culture, and if that works (and it obviously does) they will next send down a Probe (P) which will insert their eggs into your (wait for it!) nose, from whence they will invade and eat your brain. Slowly.
Thanks for making this interesting post before it is too late (like tomorrow)!
Let's not tell the Professor.Your useful observation supports Peter J.F.'s suggestion (post #19) that they come from eggs deposited first on the FF larvea and move firstonto the pupae and then on the eclosing flies, in the same way that we know that yeast spores can be transmitted.
Oh, do, do! Submit it as an experimental proposal. Show that wild mel cultures contain the little buggers (you'll have to get a culture from gio) and that commercial mels don't; contaminate a commercial culture with vinegar (lots and lots of vinegar!) from a wild mel culture, and see if successive generations transmit the little buggers. You can dress it up with a nice MVA and a pretty graph, and you should be ready for a sponsored article in the Vinegar Eel Gazette!Let's not tell the Professor.
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