A team of researchers have created a new resource for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies.

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

The new mass-rearing facility will eventually be capable of producing 130 million sterile Mediterranean fruit flies per week. To leverage this new infrastructure, a workshop on using the SIT for ...

On a glorious sunny day, nothing irks quite like spotting swarms of fruit flies taking over your kitchen. Contrary to beliefs about cleanliness, the presence of these pesky insects doesn't ...

There's nothing quite as frustrating as walking into your kitchen on a warm summer's day to find it overrun with fruit flies. Despite the common misconception that having insects in the home is a ...

As the temperatures get warmer, there’s nothing more annoying than flies invading your home during summer. Whether you’re dealing with fruit flies, house flies or gnats, these pests are not ...

Gnats and fruit flies are a common, but frustrating, downside to bringing healthy fruit into your home. Bananas especially ...

While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...

Moonlit Fruit are a new type of mutation added to Grow a Garden as part of the Lunar Glow update. This update also marks the beginning of the Lunar Glow event and, if you want to earn all of its ...

Fruit flies also tend to steer clear of cucumbers as they naturally prefer sweeter fruits. Therefore, placing slices of cucumber near entry points in your home, like doorways and windows ...

Vivan will work with scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in the UK and Spain’s Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) to apply its fruit fly larvae platform to the ...