Diet

[Chris Driver]

Does anyone have any ideas on what Drosophila melanogaster and simulans eat in 
the wild, if eat is the right word. I would really like something better than 
fermenting juices of whatever and yeast of uncertain taxonomy. The data I have 
seen is not particularly explicit in terms of specific nutrients, and one 
has to make some assumptions. I imagine that the diet is higher in alcohol 
than the laboratory diet, probably higher in fat, and may well be very low in 
available carbohydrate.
Chris Driver, Ph D
School of Biology and Chemistry, Rusden Campus
Deakin University
662 Blackburn Rd
Clayton, VIC, 3168
AUSTRALIA