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The migratory locust is not a model organism like the vinegar fly Drosophila melanogaster.

And in 2015 researchers at the University of California, San Diego, created a lab-based gene drive in the innocuous vinegar flies Drosophila that simply made all the flies’ eyes turn yellow.

Or rather, the fly: Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit fly, although Dr. McAlister points out it actually belongs to a group called the vinegar flies.

The little flies that frequently appear near unrefrigerated produce in your kitchen are probably fruit flies, which are sometimes called vinegar flies.

The spotted wing drosophila is a vinegar fly from Asia that is sometimes inaccurately referred to as a fruit fly.