Fruit flies—they're just like us. Meaning, booze seems to boost sexytime for the pesky insect that hovers around fermented ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ...

On a soft piece of fermenting orange, a male fruit fly takes a sip of methanol-rich juice. Moments later, his body pulses ...

Researchers have discovered that female fruit flies are more attracted to males that have consumed alcohol compared to those ...

A female’s pheromones? The last step of mating which is sperm and seminal fluid release?” To test if the latter is pleasurable, Shohat-Ophi and her colleagues used genetically engineered male fruit ...

I guess among the Drosophila it would be female fruit fly scientists publishing "Study Finds Males Who Drink Way More Fun to Study" (if fruit flies of either sex were capable of publishing studies ...

To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of behavioral challenges during which they may be edged out by rivals, or fail the acid test of female ...

Male fruit flies that drink alcohol become more attractive to females, according to a new study. Adding alcohol to males' food increases their release of chemicals that attract females and leads ...

Female fruit flies’ mating behaviors depend on their reproductive state. They become receptive to mating as they mature, but become less receptive to males’ ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must ...

The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster is also known as the pomace ... is controlled by how they detect and process the smell of alcohol in their brains. It is important for the flies to correctly ...