U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists discovered a rare insect in a lettuce shipment at the ...

Strawberries can spoil quickly if you don't store them properly, but a simple hack can help keep them fresh for up to 10 days ...

The fruit fly has become an issue for fruit-growing regions around the state because, unlike other fruit flies, the SWD ...

The wasps followed the fruit fly to North America and are starting to establish populations in the U.S. Both wasps parasitize SWD by laying their eggs inside SWD larvae that are developing in fruit.

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture ...

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

A study led by Nikita Komarov and Simon Sprecher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, has discovered neurons in the fly larva mouth that allow the taste of food texture.

MARTIN: It is a bad day. MARTÍNEZ: Bad deal. MARTIN: OK. Well, it turns out other creatures associate the texture of food with how tasty it is, too, like fruit fly larva - aka maggots. Here's science ...