You don't have to surrender your fresh produce to fruit flies! Here's why giving your bananas a bath is the first step in preventing a fruit fly takeover.

New research from Queen Mary University of London reveals how fruit fly larvae have repeatedly evolved their temperature ...

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We asked a bug expert about how to stop fruit flies from invading your kitchen, and what to do if they have you surrounded.

Researchers assessed more than 1,000 results from fruit-fly immunity research published between 1959 and 2011. The majority ...

Once the genetic switch was flipped, fruit flies were able to give birth entirely asexually, and pass that ability down to future generations.

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It plans to spend $8.5 million on the Texas site and $21 million to convert a facility in southern Mexico for breeding sterile fruit flies into one for screwworm flies.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the ...

Fruit fly study reveals a gene's hidden ability to keep regrowth on the right track by Claudia Lutz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan ...