text: The adults fly live from half a month to a month in the wild, or longer in benign laboratory conditions.♥\n\n>>Check this out:\nResearchers at the University of Connecticut Health Center have found that the life span of fruit flies was extended from an average of 37 days to 70 days when a gene was modified on a single chromosome. Some flies in the study lived 110 days.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/12/15/tech/main257481.shtml