Warmer weather means pesky fruit flies will be on the rise. Avoid an infestation with prevention hacks from an entomologist.

Fruit flies are attracted to ripe, rotting, or fermenting produce and can breed in moist areas like drains. Homemade traps using apple cider vinegar, overripe fruit, wine, or beer can effectively ...

As gardening season blooms across California, officials with the California Department of Food and Agriculture are urging ...

“On occasion, folks might buy large flats of strawberries for jam. If fruit flies are an issue, the best approach is to rinse ...

The Harvard team has harnessed behaviours that are so reliable they make animals act as robots while still maintaining their ...

South Texas residents are urged to inspect fruit trees for invasive fruit flies and report findings to local agriculture ...

Years of research in the field of genetics have offered interesting insights spanning the origins and development of heredity and traits, offering valuable information on its influence on every aspect ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are tremendously fond of fermented foodstuffs. Technically, it's the yeast they crave, produced by yummy rotting fruit, but they can consume quite a lot of ...

It may sound trivial, but the parasite Gamasodes queenslandicus poses a potentially deadly threat to fruit flies, UC professor and study co-author Michal Polak said. “If they have too many mites ...

Some fruit flies sacrifice sleep to avoid parasites like mites. Researchers discovered marked differences in gene expression related to metabolism in the hypervigilant flies.