The surprising behavior of male fruit flies under intense light conditions

[gmays]

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-behavior-male-fruit-flies-intense.html

[pvaldes]

Let me guess. Saturday night flyer?

> "chaining" behavior—in which the flies formed a line, previously only seen among mutants

Yep. Is not a real party until everybody is dancing La Conga

[pazimzadeh]

I haven’t read the study yet, but I wonder if it’s light only or light+heat from the light

[thih9 → pazimzadeh]

I found no data about heat; but I saw this:

> we examined males with a disrupted visual system. (…) In blind norpAP12 mutants, we found intense light did not induce courtship activity (figure 2d; electronic supplementary material, movie S1).

[pazimzadeh → thih9]

Light is clearly necessary, but is it sufficient?

[kendalf89 → hotdogscout]

Lol I saw this phenomenon happen at the Abby the other night.

[vjulian → kendalf89]

Brookline, by chance?