Fruit fly may refer to:

Organisms

Drosophilidae The Drosophilidae are a diverse, cosmopolitan family of flies, which includes species called fruit flies, although they are more accurately referred to as vinegar or pomace flies. Another distantly related family of flies, Tephritidae, are true f ...

, a family of small flies, including: ** ''

Drosophila ''Drosophila'' (), from Ancient Greek δρόσος (''drósos''), meaning "dew", and φίλος (''phílos''), meaning "loving", is a genus of fly, belonging to the family Drosophilidae, whose members are often called "small fruit flies" or p ...

'', the genus of small fruit flies and vinegar flies ** ''

Drosophila melanogaster ''Drosophila melanogaster'' is a species of fly (an insect of the Order (biology), order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less commonly the "vinegar fly", "pomace fly" ...

'' or common fruit fly ** '' Drosophila suzukii'' or Asian fruit fly *

Tephritidae The Tephritidae are one of two fly families referred to as fruit flies, the other family being the Drosophilidae. The family Tephritidae does not include the biological model organisms of the genus '' Drosophila'' (in the family Drosophilidae ...

, a family of large flies ** ''Bactrocera cucurbitae'' or melon fly ** '' Bactrocera oleae'' or olive fruit fly ** ''

Bactrocera tryoni ''Bactrocera tryoni'', the Queensland fruit fly, is a species of fly in the family Tephritidae in the insect order Diptera. ''B. tryoni'' is native to subtropical coastal Queensland and northern New South Wales. They are active during the day, b ...

'' or Queensland fruit fly ** ''Vidalia'' (fly), a genus *

Ceratitis capitata ''Ceratitis capitata'', commonly known as the Mediterranean fruit fly or medfly, is a yellow-and-brown fly native to sub-Saharan Africa. It has no near relatives in the Western Hemisphere and is considered to be one of the most destructive fru ...

, the Mediterranean fruit fly

Other uses

* ''Fruit Fly'' (film), 2009 film directed by H. P. Mendoza * , LGBT slang with a meaning similar to fag hag {{disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages