Scientific Basis for Bar Flies

An acknowledged pest in bars and taverns, the fruit fly it seems has been driven to drink out of sexual frustration.

According to a group of scientists at the University of California San Francisco:

Sexually deprived male fruit flies exhibit a pattern of behavior that seems ripped from the pages of a sad-sack Raymond Carver story: when female fruit flies reject their sexual advances, the males are driven to excessive alcohol consumption, drinking far more than comparable, sexually satisfied male flies.