With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests ...

Scientists have discovered that fruit fly larvae can actually "taste" food texture, thanks to specialized neurons in their ...

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps ...

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

Fungus gnats are small black flies, also known as sciarid flies, mushroom flies and mycetophilids. They are a very common pest, especially when plants are grown in pots of soil-free compost. In fact, ...

However, both larvae and adults of Drosophila busckii developed normally on food containing DMDS compounds. In contrast, other fruit fly species, including Drosophila melanogaster, were unable to ...

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The computer-based algorithm calculated how often and much time each bee spent in areas containing food, the time they spent with the larvae, and their total distance traveled inside the hive.

During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster, the common household fruit fly. It's become one of the most popular model organisms, but not because ...

During a Dec. 5 visit, a Scott County inspector found bottles of tequila with fruit flies in them. Also, multiple sauces in the kitchen were being held at room temperature despite labels that said ...