A closer look at the common fruit fly might surprise you.

You can get rid of fruit flies fast effectively—and naturally—with things you probably already have in your kitchen.

and fruit flies (also called pomace or vinegar flies) are some of the most common culprits. Knowing how to tell the difference between drain flies and fruit flies will help you figure out the best ...

This research may help predict how climate change will impact insect distribution and behavior. Tiny cold-blooded animals like flies rely on their environment to regulate body temperature. Their ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and ...

Pavan Ramdya’s Neuroengineering Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) studies how neural circuits control the behavior of the common fruit fly, Drosophila ...

Sci. USA 107, 4820–4824; 2010). In their experiments, Ristroph et al. mapped the free flight of common fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), using three orthogonally arranged high-speed cameras ...

Previous work from the Gallio Lab focused on how small insects like laboratory flies respond to sensory cues like harmless and painful temperature changes. "The common fruit fly is an especially ...

"We found that this medicating behavior was shared by diverse fly species, adding to the evidence that using toxins in the environment to medicate offspring may be common across the animal kingdom." ...