| The "Housefly Breeding
Unit" was built to house successive generations of
a contained gene pool common houseflies. The idea was to
find out if a new "kind" could be created or evolved
simply by breeding the offspring of the same 150 houseflies
over and over again.
The unit facilitates the three stages of fly development.
An incubating shelf speeds up egg larva growth. Then pupae
or cocoons they were transferred to the large tank to hatch.
Once the adult flies lay more eggs, they are collected on
flypaper and stored in jars on the display shelf to the
right. ... at first the flies got smaller and whiter, then
their wings became curlier, and for a while many of the
flies had no wings at all. Each time they would begin to
get really interesting the next generation would revert
back to a more natural state.
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