Gnats and fruit flies ... apple cider vinegar, warm water and dish soap. Put overripe fruit in a bowl and cover it with plastic wrap with some small holes poked in the top. If you’re looking for ...

The same effect occurs in some other species, making the bacteria a potential tool for insect control. In female fruit ... infected flies an advantage. It's a pattern seen throughout evolution.

Fruit flies are persistent pests whose populations can reach problematic levels in record time. But where do they like to ...

There are more insects on the planet than any other ... in the female fruit flies' brains. One of the explanations for why this bacterium may have survived centuries of insect evolution is tied ...

Fruit flies thrive on the rot produced by cabbages, strawberries, bananas and other fruits and vegetables that can often break down before you notice them aging out of edibility. Sugary substances ...

You’re seeing hundreds of images mosaic together to encompass the whole fly brain from tip to tip.” On a large monitor, the ...

Worm towers– sometimes called swarms– “were kind of just whispered about in the worm community,” says Ding. Previously, there were anecdotal reports and documented observations of these multi-nematode ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on Earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and ...

It turns out that both may have a surprising impact on the size of seeds in the fruits ... evolution of seed sizes onto that of land animals, they observed that when land animals got bigger, so ...

Living worm towers are recorded in the wild for the first time, a rare example of collective hitchhiking in nature ...

Nematodes are the most abundant animal on earth, but when times get tough, these tiny worms have a hard time moving up and out. So, they play to the ...

The choice of a potential host is determined also by the presence of competitors or natural enemies and by female physiology (Thompson 1988; Jaenike 1990), among other ... by star fruit, Malay apple, ...