What do normal fruit flies and mutant fruit flies eat and where do they live?

I also want to know the differences between the normal fruit fruit flies and the mutant fruit flies and I'm comparing them, so please help!!!!!

What do normal fruit flies and mutant fruit flies eat and where do they live?
In nature, fruit flies consume the rotting material of fruits. That is also where their breeding and egg-laying occurs. Mutants do occur in nature (and eat the same thing), but are extremely rare because their mutations put them at a disadvantage among the wild-type flies, so that they often don't end up breeding.





In fact, it took hundreds, maybe thousands of breedings in order to develop the populations of mutant fruit flies we see in the laboratory. All of these flies are carefully contained so that they do not escape to nature. Mutant flies just can't compete with the wild-types in nature, but scientist would not want to accidentally introduce a high concentration of mutants for fear of damaging the natural species.





Fruit flies are found all over the world, and are especially common where there are fruit crops and other places that have large amounts of fruit for the flies to utilize.





Hope that helps! :)

gina