The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

drosophilae, which parasitises fruit fly pupae (the stage just before they become an adult), and Asobara japonica, which parasitises early-stage fruit fly larvae. Multiple studies have already ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...