A team of bioengineers at Harvard University's Rowland Institute has found two new ways to control a tiny creature, ...

On a soft piece of fermenting orange, a male fruit fly takes a sip of methanol-rich juice. Moments later, his body pulses ...

The global birthrate has been in significant decline for decades. In the U.S., couples are deciding to have children later in ...

Alcohol enhances the production of sex pheromones, which are chemical signals used by fruit flies to attract mates.

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible to induce animals to act as if they were robotic. Or mostly robotic, at ...

Scientists found that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields, adding them to a list with sharks, bees, and even the platypus. Since they are common in research, this opens new avenues of study.

Warmer weather means fruit flies will be at their worst. Here's how to keep them out of your home before the summer begins.

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster drinks alcohol and has shown that alcohol has a direct and ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads ...

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 ...

Fruit flies are at their worst when the weather warms. We asked a certified bug expert about the best ways to keep them out of your home and away from food. Arielle Burton is an associate content ...