Like a giant garage door, they will seek out anything not cleaned recently, anything sugary…They tend to gravitate toward floor drains that accumulate gunk and yummy things for fruit flies.” ...

Warmer weather means fruit flies will be at their worst. Here's how to keep them out of your home before the summer begins.

A team of bioengineers at Harvard University's Rowland Institute has found two new ways to control a tiny creature, ...

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible ...

These small and outwardly unremarkable insects conceal a grand reproductive secret inside: giant sperm. Fruit flies show more variation in sperm length than do the remainder of the entire animal ...

Researchers at EPFL's Neuroengineering Laboratory, led by Pavan Ramdya, aim to replicate the workings of the brain of the ...

Only three molecular changes are needed for fruit flies to digest milkweed toxins Gene-edited fruit flies have gained some of monarch butterflies’ superpowers — specifically, the ability to ...