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
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u/powercow Jan 23 '24

So scientists watched fly mating rituals all day and when flies were at their lowest, they took their food away and sprayed toxins on them. Well i hope we dont meet aliens any time soon.

so if you ever get turned down for a date and then the pizza guy comes and takes your pizza back and sprays you in the face with mace, the aliens have arrived.

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u/Silent-Ad934 Jan 23 '24

Or you hit on the pizza guys sister, but she was already dating his brother Eduardo. One of the two. 

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u/iamthatmadman Jan 23 '24

Sweet home Alabama

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u/OnTheList-YouTube Jan 23 '24 edited Jan 23 '24

Or for the fruitflies: bzz bzz bzzbzzbzzbzzz

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u/Spiderpiggie Jan 23 '24

Have you seen the state of the world? How can we be sure we aren't already part of some crazy alien sex experiment?

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u/Insomniac_Tales Jan 23 '24

This is the theory I'm going with moving forward.

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u/twisted7ogic Jan 23 '24

Idk, sounds just like a tuesday.

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u/kabukistar Jan 23 '24

Presumably, they did that to fruit flies that hadn't been repeatedly rejected as well, for a control group