Fruit flies go through a whole series of transitions between life stages, as shown here. The larval molts are called instars. The mature larva forms a prepupa, and then a pupa, which undergo ...

Warmer weather means pesky fruit flies will be on the rise. Avoid an infestation with prevention hacks from an entomologist.

California is dumping millions of Mediterranean fruit flies over the Bay Area as part of an ongoing eradication effort.

The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases ... For optimum growth, they need a temperature of 25 degrees, 65 percent humidity and a day/night cycle of twelve hours. The flies are kept in small ...

Fruit flies can produce up to 500 offspring within their week-long life cycle, meaning that once they've made their way into your home, a small problem can quickly become a major infestation.

In fact, fruit flies can lay around 500 eggs in one lifecycle, a life cycle that usually lasts about a week, which is why it’s easy for an infestation to rapidly take over your kitchen.

The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), which seem to appear out of nowhere around ripe fruit, is often considered a nuisance. But the tiny insect is actually a favourite among scientists.

But a team of researchers at Harvard has recognized that there are some behaviors that are so instinctual that it's possible to induce animals to act as if they were robotic. Or mostly robotic, at ...

That's the waking nightmare one species of Australian fruit fly must contend with each night as hungry mites stalk and attach themselves like a tick while the fly is sleeping in the fruit orchards ...

Some fruit flies sacrifice sleep to avoid parasites like mites. Researchers discovered marked differences in gene expression related to metabolism in the hypervigilant flies. If you think ...