Fruit flies are at their worst when the weather warms. We asked a certified bug expert about the best ways to keep them out ...

In fact, fruit flies can lay around 500 eggs in one lifecycle, a life cycle that usually lasts about a week, which is why it’s easy for an infestation to rapidly take over your kitchen.

Throw away garbage and take out recycling frequently. Clean out the bottom of bins when liquid accumulates, wipe down ...

The team of international researchers, including Zandawala, has created the first comprehensive map of the circadian clock network in the fruit fly brain. This groundbreaking ... operates on a 24-hour ...

Since the experiment began in 2022, scientists have overcome challenges like pollination and grain filling in microgravity.

A new Drosophila collection of Parkinsonism models reveals early synaptic cholinergic projection neuron dysfunction, linking synaptic failure to later dopaminergic decline, highlighting a role for ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits ... Elevated PKA signaling also contributes to the shorter life expectancy of inc mutants. However, a reduction of PKA signaling further increased ...

New research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.

As warmer weather approaches, house flies and mosquitoes become an all-too ... then press whole cloves into the flesh of the fruit. The more cloves you add, the stronger the scent will be, making ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

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, ...