In this video article, we describe an automated assay to measure the effect of hunger or satiety on olfactory dependent food search behavior in the adult fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
Zaninovich, O. A., Kim, S. M., Root, C. R., Green, D. S., Ko, K. I., Wang, J. W. A Single-fly Assay for Foraging Behavior in Drosophila. J. Vis. Exp. (81), e50801, doi:10.3791/50801 (2013).