In her spare time, she's in her kitchen, trying a new baking recipe. If you've still got even one fruit fly handing around your kitchen this holiday season, there are probably more coming.

Tumors grow larger in female fruit flies than males: Here's what that could mean for humans Date: December 11, 2024 Source: Tulane University Summary: A new study found that tumors grew 2.5 times ...

Not long after it brought on a fresh crew of astronauts, China's Tiangong space station has received yet another group of new visitors: fruit flies. As Space.com reports, the critters — consisting of ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Detroit Metro Airport found live larvae of a rare fruit fly in a traveler's things earlier this year, officials said Thursday. They said the grubs ...

Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools. It is easy and inexpensive to raise large numbers of them, they develop quickly, scientists know all about their genome and how ...

ROMULUS, Mich. (WXYZ) — The live larvae of a rare fruit fly was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection earlier this year, according to the department's ...

To solve this evolutionary puzzle, researchers at Syracuse University's Center for Reproductive Evolution (CRE) have spent decades studying the mating biology of fruit flies. These small and ...

In record time, the Dominican Republic was able to successfully contain a new incursion of the Mediterranean fruit fly, a highly destructive pest threatening agricultural production worldwide in 2024.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Entomology Laboratory confirmed that larvae were caper fruit flies, which belong to the Mediterranean fruit fly, Oriental fruit fly, melon fly, and Mexican fruit ...

Fractionating the Fruit Fly A simple technique reveals that genes controlling eye color in flies also control the production of a whole family of unusual substances. The study has importance for ...

Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve has long had an amazing network of marble caves — and now its being recognized ...