Who doesn’t love some fresh seasonal fruit? These flies sure do. It’s right in their name, after all. While they can find ...

Tephritid fruit flies cause major losses in fruit and vegetables, and are often the target of intensive insecticide applications to protect commercial production. In addition, few pests have a greater ...

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 ...

Whether it is pods of whales or collectives of tiny cells ... A theoretical model of the fruit fly's early embryonic development, nearly two decades in the making. With their detailed model ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found.

The answer? Fruit flies. The study found that a specific gene, Shal, controls a potassium ion channel in the Johnston’s organ — a key hearing structure in fruit fly’s antenna that fine-tunes how the ...