Warmer weather means pesky fruit flies will be on the rise. Avoid an infestation with prevention hacks from an entomologist.

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A fruit fly is a tiny flying insect that’s fond of overripe or rotting fruits and vegetables. Here is how you can get rid of them.

Orange County will release sterilized male mosquitoes to reduce populations of the disease-carrying Aedes aegypti. The ...

Mosquito season has arrived in Southern California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to ...

That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite. “There’s not a lot of things that we can all ...

That's the waking nightmare one species of Australian fruit fly must contend with each night as hungry mites stalk and attach themselves like a tick while the fly is sleeping in the fruit orchards ...

Now, however, in a recent study, researchers have compiled a comprehensive dataset documenting the behaviors of over 30,000 fruit flies across 105 genetically distinct strains. This valuable ...

In their study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group used a fruit fly's natural response to moving stimuli and odorants to effectively direct its movements.

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

On a soft piece of fermenting orange, a male fruit fly takes a sip of methanol-rich juice. Moments later, his body pulses with a heady bouquet of pheromones. Within minutes, he’s won the ...