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For the past 40 months I have been spraying a solution of drano and water twice a day on a colony of fruit flies. I started with a solution of 12.5% drano to 87.5% water. I was able to spray them without killing any of them. At a solution of 12.75 drano I had a substantial amount of flies drop dead.

I am 24 generations in (about 40 months) and I am now able to do a solution of 12.8% drano without any substantial loss of life. A solution of 13% seems to be the upper limit of safely spraying the colony.

>> No.11403980

What are you trying to accomplish?

>> No.11403982

>>11403980
Drano resistant fruit flies
I am going to start working on rats soon

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11403987

>>11403982
That's so pointless

>> No.11403995

>>11403987
False

>> No.11403999

schizo larp, post pics or GTFO

>> No.11404030

>>11403968
Based. Put the colony near a radiation source or introduce a small amount of mutagen to the solution to sample mutations faster.

>> No.11404372

>>11403968
In middle school for a science fair project I sprayed some fruit flies down with a rubbing alcohol solution and they died. After that, I decided to mix varying concentrations of rubbing alcohol into the substrate they were living in and charted how their populations grew. Fun times.

>> No.11405524

>>11403999
this

>> No.11406393

>>11403968