These are the best gnat killers you can buy or DIY. Plus an entomologist shares tips to help you prevent gnats in the first ...

Large flies apply to house flies, flesh flies, soldier flies and bottle flies. Small flies are fruit flies, moth flies, phorid flies and sometimes fungus gnats. These flies will have different food ...

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

EPFL researchers use fruit fly brains and optogenetics to develop agile robotic systems, bridging neuroscience and advanced ...

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 ...

Fruit flies are at their worst when the weather warms. We asked a certified bug expert about the best ways to keep them out ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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—they're just like us. Meaning, booze seems to boost sexytime for the pesky insect that hovers around fermented ...