In an evolutionary battle of the sexes, scientists have found that male flies sharpen their eyesight to avoid being tricked ...

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

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn ...

In the animal kingdom, seduction is often the business of males, who display various attributes to attract females. However, in dancer flies, the opposite is true. Females inflate their abdomens with ...

But why do flies hang around us? The reason depends on the species of insect, experts say. "For a certain group of them, they ...

By copying the structure of a fly's eyes, the specs are claimed to "fill in" the missing section of the wearer's view of the world. Macular degeneration is one of the leading causes of blindness ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

The fly eye is patterned by a morphogenetic wave driven by the Hedgehog signaling protein. In the 22 September Science Neumann and Nuesslein-Volhard report that neuronal differentiation in zebrafish ...

Fruit flies are about an eighth of an inch long, have red eyes (though some species have darker eyes) and are light brown with dark rings around their abdomen. They also have two wings (many ...