As the world marks the International Day of Plant Health, African countries have come together to discuss environmentally friendly ways to protect fruit and vegetable harvests from insect pests.

The sterile fruit flies will be released weekly to combat Mediterranean fruit fly infestations. The flies threaten over 250 types of produce.

Fruit flies are attracted to ripe, rotting, or fermenting produce and can breed in moist areas like drains. Homemade traps using apple cider vinegar, overripe fruit, wine, or beer can effectively ...

Researchers have uncovered a "selfish" X chromosome in the fruit fly Drosophila testacea that manages to distort inheritance ...

A team of researchers have created a new resource for studying motor control of wing movements in fruit flies. The study, published recently as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, is described by the ...

On a glorious sunny day, nothing irks quite like spotting swarms of fruit flies taking over your kitchen. Contrary to beliefs about cleanliness, the presence of these pesky insects doesn't ...

FRUIT flies are known to invade homes during the warmer months, but keeping your home fly-free doesn't need to be such a headache. Although there are plenty of tips and tricks out there you can ...

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