How to catch fruit flies (video)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2018 — You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar — or can you? In this video, Reactions explains the chemistry behind why fruit flies love vinegar so much that some entomologists call them “vinegar flies”: https://youtu.be/GL2ImHRxUD0.

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