Over the 20+ years I've been studying fly behavior, I've noticed that there are a lot of different methodical tricks that behavior labs do that can affect the outcome of behavior experiments, but that aren't really written down or recorded in the methods. There is really no central place for people entering the world of fly behavior to find detailed information on how to perform well-controlled fly behavior experiments. So, after years of troubleshooting behavior experiments, I've decided to write down some of the mythical information that is the lab lore of performing behavior experiments. This is my behavior blog...