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.

Follow these pro tips on how to get rid of fruit flies in your house and garden. DIY fruit fly traps with apple cider vinegar ...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) researchers are unraveling the secrets of the fruit fly brain to advance robotics. A team from the institution's Neuroengineering Laboratory have used ...

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.

In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, activates a non-coding piRNA gene named Flamenco to promote female fruit fly (Drosophila) fertility. The discovery solves the 30 ...

Scientists have long turned to simpler organisms to help answer these questions, with the humble fruit fly emerging as an ideal candidate. These tiny insects share many genes with humans that are ...

to conclude that drinking the ethanol activates reward centers in the fruit fly brain. The end goal is to find equivalent mechanisms in the human brain to guide future interventions into human ...

Biosecurity New Zealand today lifted controls on movement of fruit and vegetables in the North Shore suburb of Birkdale following no further finds of fruit flies since a single male Oriental fruit fly ...

Now, research in fruit flies has uncovered a role for two specific brain proteins that are necessary during brain development to prevent seizures. The two proteins, Imp and Sdc, are found in the ...