Throw away garbage and take out recycling frequently. Clean out the bottom of bins when liquid accumulates, wipe down ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

In many ways, fruit flies have become a convenient lens through which scientists can explore the complexities of life. This kind of tissue movement was expected to cause the cells to flow and ...

To prevent fruit flies from taking over your kitchen, it all comes down to cleaning. Keeping your place as dry and free of food as possible prevents pests from continuing their life cycle.

thereby disrupting the breeding cycle and causing the population to be eliminated. This tool, however, requires mass production of target fruit fly species in large facilities. APHIS currently ...

One of the world’s most destructive pests has been detected in an Adelaide eastern suburbs area and strict quarantine restrictions have been introduced. See the areas affected and what the ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance ... an indoor-outdoor laboratory a quarter of a mile from the newly built Life Sciences building. He said it’s more like a field research site with ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now discovered that the fruit fly Drosophila ... key factor in the life of Drosophila busckii. This fly clearly prefers ...

The flies only fly for 1-2 weeks in their life cycle and that is when they have to reproduce by laying eggs that become fly larvae. To increase the chance that their genes will be passed on ...

With a genetic makeup that closely resembles that of humans, they can also learn and adapt to new environments, making them an ideal model for studying life in space. The first fruit flies aboard ...