Who doesn’t love some fresh seasonal fruit? These flies sure do. It’s right in their name, after all. While they can find their way into your home at any time, summer and fall are prime times for ...

This research may help predict how climate change will impact insect distribution and behavior. Tiny cold-blooded animals ...

Scientists observed fruit flies playing by spinning on disks. Some preferred this over eating. The behavior appeared ...

A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Nina started at CNET writing breaking news stories before shifting to covering Security Security and other government benefit programs. In her ...

Researchers have, for the first time, sequenced specific gene regions from a set of fruit fly species found on cucurbitaceous ...

An international team of scientists has discovered that tiny changes in the timing of the expression of a single gene can ...

The biosecurity response to the discovery of a single male Oriental fruit fly in Birkdale on Auckland’s North Shore is making ...

A map has been released of the two zones with restrictions on fruit and vegetable movement on Auckland’s North Shore after a ...

Biosecurity New Zealand Commissioner, North, Mike Inglis says the $2.4 million cost of a recent biosecurity operation in ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells, leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found. A new study by researchers at the ...

Biosecurity New Zealand has now placed legal controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburb of ...