U.S. fruit growers mostly deal with apple maggots (fruit fly larvae) and Suzuki fruit flies. Hawaii has the solanum fruit fly ...

Concentric rings in a fruit fly larva's antenna result from a set of genetic control "switches" that interact early in a fly's development to generate dozens of types of specialized nerve cells ...

This time-lapse video shows the development of the nervous system in a fruit fly embryo as it transitions to the larval stage. Fruit flies have a high reproduction rate and a very short gestation ...

Employing a library of more than 1,000 chemicals, EMBL scientists and collaborators investigated how agrochemicals affect ...

Another reason you don’t want your fruit to hang around too long: Hatching larvae eat “damp, decomposing, organic matter,” ...

Until now, only a roundworm and a fruit fly larva had been mapped in this way. Fruit fly brains are more complex and need to react to avoid human swats. Researchers are already hard at work on a ...

Wash produce as soon as you get home to remove any existing eggs or larvae. Take out the garbage regularly. Clean up spills ASAP, especially fruit juice or alcohol. But first, you'll want to find a ...

An 87-square-mile area in Orange County is under quarantine due to the detection of the invasive oriental fruit fly.

They systematically exposed fruit fly larvae to more than 1,000 molecules contained within EMBL's unique chemical library, which stores a variety of agrochemicals in a format readily usable for ...

This is a side-by-side time-lapse video of the same developing fruit fly embryo. In the view on the left ... The jerky movements visible toward the end of the video are a result of the larva ...

The scientists found that exposure to non-fatal amounts of 57 percent of the chemicals altered behavior in fruit fly larvae, while higher levels compromised long-term survival after acute exposure.