Fruit flies severely impact mango yield and quality, but organic methods offer sustainable control. Effective practices include methyl eugenol traps, field sanitation, fruit bagging, neem-based sprays ...

Paw paws (Asimina triloba) are a survivor from when North America was warmer. They are the only temperate zone tree in a tropical family. You can see that their leaves and large fruit have that jungle ...

We asked a bug expert about how to stop fruit flies from invading your kitchen, and what to do if they have you surrounded.

Genetics research reveals how diverse complex biological systems are. Diversity and collaboration make for more thorough and ...

Once the genetic switch was flipped, fruit flies were able to give birth entirely asexually, and pass that ability down to future generations.

Should the flies reach the states, the larvae could infest livestock, pets, wildlife and, possibly, even people.

Sterile male flies have been released into the wild with the theory that the wild female will mate with the sterile male and ...

Females "tend and befriend" rather than "fight or flee." Higher stress hormone responses explain their higher incidence of ...

pesticide sprayerBy introducing the mutation into wild-type fruit flies, researchers confirmed that it produced the same ...

In fruit flies, Wolbachia makes infected males unable to fertilize uninfected females' eggs. An uninfected female is, after ...

A new study from Macquarie University reveals that the chemical chlorothalonil, which is used globally to prevent fungal ...

Researchers at Chiba University found that genetic diversity among fruit flies enhances group fear responses, improving ...