Wheatgrass flavonoids can powerfully combat oxidative stress and extend fruit fly lifespans. Scientists studying 228 ...

Where do fruit flies come from? Fruit flies come from outside of your home and are brought in through multiple ways. Most commonly, they fly into homes when a door or window is left open and even ...

The effects of seeing dead fruit flies on the physiology of fruit flies resemble changes seen in other species. For instance, social insects like ants and honeybees carry their dead away from the ...

Do you see the light? Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots Light and smells can turn flies into remote-controlled near-automatons.

What they found: Using gene knockout experiments during a fly's larva-to-adult transition, researchers found that those ...

Why fruit flies are smarter than you think Fruit flies, it turns out, aren’t just aimlessly flitting around. Scientists found they employ intentional movements to locate the source of a ...

In a world first, scientists at the University of Utah have engineered fruit flies susceptible to cocaine addiction. But as strange as it sounds, there are potentially life-saving reasons for ...

A multitude of new genomic sequence data fills major gaps in the fruit fly tree of life, researchers report.

Seeing a swarm of pesky fruit flies in the kitchen is frustrating. We talk with a fruit fly researcher about how fruit flies make their way into your home, how to ripen fruit without attracting ...

Get rid of fruit flies with this simple pint-glass trick that traps them fast with no chemicals.

Fruit flies: how to get rid of them If you’re looking for other solutions to evict the gnats and fruit flies in your home, consider a silent, non-zapping bug trap.

Whenever fruit flies invade my kitchen, I think of my grandmother (stay with me here). My grandmother grew up during the Great Depression, and she was frugal to a fault. There are plenty of things ...