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

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While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

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

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

Researchers discovered that fruit flies use not one ... neurobiology with natural history. Drosophila melanogaster evolved in environments full of rotting, fermenting fruit—places rich in ...

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

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible ...

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

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