The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

71-79 (9 pages) Degree-day accumulations and puparial duration of the Mexican fruit fly, Anastrepha ludens (Loew), in the field ... Duration of the pre-imaginal stages is strongly a function of season ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

How long it takes for cells to close a fruit fly's wound ... is a life-preserving effect. That is, a wound that goes unhealed for a longer amount of time at an earlier stage might lead to big ...

In many ways, fruit flies have become a convenient lens through which scientists can explore the complexities of life. This kind of tissue movement was expected to cause the cells to flow and ...

Scientists found that fruit fly embryos can develop through multiple genetic paths, not just one. This challenges traditional ideas.

Morgan valued experimentation over observation, and he became interested in broad questions about the very nature of life. What were ... the help of the common fruit fly. Young naturalist.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now discovered that the fruit fly Drosophila ... key factor in the life of Drosophila busckii. This fly clearly prefers ...

Changing amino acids one at a time, the researchers discovered that all three are needed to produce fruit flies that, from the egg stage through adulthood, can survive exposure to the chemicals.

Prior research has shown that there are large numbers of parasitoid species, many of which rely on a host to carry their eggs ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance ... an indoor-outdoor laboratory a quarter of a mile from the newly built Life Sciences building. He said it’s more like a field research site with ...

In a new study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers found that when it comes to food preferences, texture can be just as important as taste in fruit ... stage and therefore its life ...