To prevent fruit flies from taking over your kitchen, it all comes down to cleaning. Keeping your place as dry and free of food as possible prevents pests from continuing their life cycle.

Once the larvae hatch, they mature into adults in just a few days, and the cycle starts all over again. Get rid of them by finding their food source and removing it. This will help stop the process ...

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 ...

The state's primary industries department says it has been advocating to the Australian government to reduce the size of the current 15km suspension zone for Queensland fruit fly. Adelaide Hills ...

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, ...

Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey with rivals. This new understanding of how male flies compete for female partners could shed ...

In the fruit fly Drosophila, however, the hormone is produced by nerve cells located in the brain. These cells release the insulin directly into the hemolymph—the fluid that fulfills the ...

The single male Oriental fruit fly was discovered in a surveillance trap in a suburban backyard in Birkdale today. “This is the same species of fruit fly that we responded to in Papatoetoe ...

There's no evidence of a breeding population after the discovery of a second fruit fly on Thursday, according to New Zealand's head of biosecurity. Biosecurity New Zealand is investigating and ...

Biosecurity New Zealand is investigating and boosting trapping after new Auckland fruit fly was found on Thursday. An operation is under way and extra field teams are in the suburb of Birkdale, on ...

There are growing calls for changes to national fruit fly protocols, after an outbreak in the Adelaide Hills ruined the summer strawberry harvest.

Adult apple maggots begin to emerge from the soil around July 1, continuing through most of the summer. Apple maggot flies lay eggs in fruit which becomes pitted and misshapen. The female fly creates ...