Fruit Flies

Fruit flies often feed on fruits that's how they get there name but they also eat other varieties of food. They like their food to be decaying or fermenting. They reproduce very quickly and are extremely small in size. Which makes them easy to move to place to place. There is a small variety of fruit flies. the adult flies are .008 to .2 inches long or 2 to 5 millimeters long. Some fruit flies can be very large and look like regular house flies. One type of fruit flies is Drosophilidae which have around 1,500 different species. They have a red or reddish brown color and clear wings. The other type of fruit flies is Tephritidae which have 5,000 different species. They have colorful wings which is referred to peacock flies.

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-fruit-flies-and-where-do-they-come-from.htm

http://cottagecountrypestcontrol.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html

http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/diptera/tephriti/phottour/Rhag_com.htm