Fruit Flies Use Alcohol to Kill Parasites

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130222102958.htm

by Biological pest, sciencedaily.com
February 22nd 2013

The fruit fly study adds to the evidence "that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom," says biologist Todd Schlenke.

When fruit flies sense parasitic wasps in their environment, they lay their eggs in an alcohol-soaked environment, essentially forcing their larvae to consume booze as a drug to combat the deadly wasps.
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