Certain young fruit flies’ eyes literally pop out of their head
The first “biological portrait” of Pelmatops flies reveals how their eyes really stand out
![A male fruit fly with a long skinny red body and long dark eyestalks with red tips, stands on a leaf](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/102522_sm_stalk-eyed-flies_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
With eyeballs sticking out at the end of extravagant stalks on its head, a long skinny male fruit fly (Pelmatops tangliangi) prowls shrubbery after the swift and weird extension of its eyes.
Yong Wang