Fruit flies severely impact mango yield and quality, but organic methods offer sustainable control. Effective practices ...

You don't have to surrender your fresh produce to fruit flies! Here's why giving your bananas a bath is the first step in preventing a fruit fly takeover.

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 ...

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

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 ...

In fruit flies, Wolbachia makes infected males unable to fertilize uninfected females' eggs. An uninfected female is, after all, a dead end for Wolbachia. The same effect occurs in some other species, ...

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

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The US Department of Agriculture plans to ramp up the breeding and distribution of adult male flies — sterilizing them with ... and it won't be fully open again until mid-September. But female flies ...

The move is part of the government's plans for protecting the U.S. from the New World screwworm fly, which could devastate ...