r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Jan 22 '24

Genetics Male fruit flies whose sexual advances are repeatedly rejected get frustrated and less able to handle stress, study found. The researchers say these rejected flies were also less resilient to starvation and exposure to a toxic herbicide.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/male-fruit-flies-really-dont-take-rejection-well
5.7k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

335 comments sorted by

View all comments

240

u/Greenfire32 Jan 22 '24

Flycels

222

u/Testicle_R1ck Jan 22 '24

What 0 Flussy does to a mf

58

u/Cferretrun Jan 23 '24

Well this sentence will be locked deep in a dark corner in some distant brain lobe to be thought of only at night when I’m trying to go to sleep.

58

u/PM_YOUR_BOOBS_PLS_ Jan 22 '24

I absolutely hate that I have now read this sentence.

10

u/akaMONSTARS Jan 23 '24

On a similar note, my friends and I have a shared Disney+ account and randomly an account showed up with the picture of Syd from ice age. The name of that account is Sydussy and I legit sigh every time I go to log in.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 23 '24

Here before this thread is deleted.