Researchers have developed an easy-to-use, publicly available analysis pipeline and inexpensive hardware to record and quantify aggression and courtship behaviors in fruit flies.

A simple, freely available analysis tool and hardware for analyzing fruit flies allows opportunities for researchers in ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a new study. The paradox of enhanced memory despite sleep loss could be explained ...

You can get rid of fruit flies fast effectively—and naturally—with things you probably already have in your kitchen.

Fruit flies are tiny insects that flock to ripening and rotten fruits and vegetables, both as food sources and places to lay eggs. Sometimes it seems like these tiny pests are everywhere ...

It is vital to our success in keeping fruit fly from establishing in New Zealand," Mr Inglis says. "To date, no other Oriental fruit flies have been found in surveillance traps since the original ...

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, ...

A recent study has offered a “breakthrough” in the fight against fruit flies, formidable pests considered among the biggest threats to fruits and vegetables. Researchers have, for the first time, ...

Take away a fruit fly's wings and the insect would no longer be able to fly - nor would it be able to smell, new research by Ohio State University scientists found. The study, published in the journal ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tiny changes in the timing of expression of the gene orthodenticle (otd) can significantly affect eye size in fruit flies. In Drosophila mauritiana, earlier ...

An Adelaide Hills berry farm will look to the next season as they cut their losses, including all casual workers and $750,000 in income, because of ‘devastating’ fruit fly quarantine rules.

Early last month, an Oriental fruit fly was discovered in the Mangere/ Papatoetoe area, kicking off a Controlled Area Notice and increased trapping in the area. This month, controls in the area were ...