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

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

That’s why learning how to get rid of fruit flies is vital, especially if you love a countertop fruit bowl. “They especially ...

Video showing female fruit flies where the aIPg neuronal cell type is activated, promoting aggressive behavior. The researchers used computer vision-based methods to track the flies in the video ...

You know how you never see just one fruit fly? That's because they have incredibly fast life cycles. A single female fruit fly can lay up to 100 eggs a day, which hatch in less than 24 hours.

The oriental fruit fly looks like a house fly with a bright yellow body. The female lays eggs inside the fruit, which hatch into maggots. Image courtesy County of Santa Clara Division of Agriculture.

Why fruit flies? For one ... by virtue of inheriting the "male" chromosome (denoted Y); likewise, female flies should always inherit "female" chromosomes (denoted X), which means that these ...

Fruit flies do not require much space and make few demands on their ... Under optimum conditions, the Drosophila female will lay up to 100 eggs a day. Consequently, researchers have a large number of ...