F ive different species of fruit flies have finally been eradicated from nine different California counties, marking a successful effort involving traps, backyard treatments, prohibitions against ...

Los Angeles – Federal and state agricultural officials are reporting that all populations of invasive fruit flies have been eradicated from California. The announcement came late last week from ...

Throw away garbage and take out recycling frequently. Clean out the bottom of bins when liquid accumulates, wipe down ...

invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala. Citing an "unprecedented outbreak" of insect damage to fruit and vegetable crops in California and Texas, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ...

USDA secures $129.2 million in emergency funds to deter fruit flies -- some of the most destructive fruit and vegetable pests ...

Fruit flies are already known to evolve at a speedy pace ... Therese Markow, an emeritus evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego, who did not participate in the work, tells ...

Anastrepha fruit flies are the main fruit fly pests throughout the Western Hemisphere. The SIT has been applied to exclude the Mexican fruit fly (A. ludens) from California and Texas, to suppress the ...

These expert-backed tips from an entomologist will help banish fruit flies and keep your kitchen pest-free for good. A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota, Nina started at CNET writing ...

So evolutionary biologist Noah Whiteman of the University of California, Berkeley and colleagues used the gene editor CRISPR/Cas9 to alter the sodium pumps of fruit flies and retrace the ...