Efforts are underway right now in Orange County to stop the invasion of an unwelcomed pest. Officials are working to find and ...

Female fruit flies lay eggs on the surfaces of fermenting fruits and vegetables. Fruit fly larvae feed on the yeast and fungi that grow in decaying fruit matter until they’re fully grown and ...

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,” ...

The flies were found in and around the cities Santa Ana and Garden Grove, prompting officials to block off an 87-square mile ...

With biomanufacturing often a limiting factor for drug developers, Canada’s Future Fields is heralding its bug-based approach ...

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 ...

Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving 'drunk' after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed to be rare and accidental. Ecologists now challenge this ...

Growers in South Australia's pest-free area are under enormous financial and mental stress as they battle Queensland ...

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.

the fruit fly causes fruit to decay early and fall to the ground. Larvae or maggots are also able to develop and feed on the pulp, the agency said. The oriental fruit fly is commonly found in ...