The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

An enigmatic new species of wormlion fly, whose larvae construct clever pitfall traps to capture prey, has been revealed in a study led by researchers at Dali University in China. The fly, described ...

Entomologist Thomas Werner has studied fruit flies from coast to coast. But his rarest discovery to date was close to home. Armed with a banana-baited live trap and a strong desire to disprove a gap ...

Researchers have published an official description for Scenopinus jerei, a new fly species from Finland. Only about 420 species of window flies are known, most of them from the arid regions of the ...

Researchers have found that habitat use and seasonal occurrence differ between two closely related fruit fly species. However, female Drosophila triauraria and male D. biauraria were collected ...

A gene associated with courtship behavior in fruit flies does not operate the same way in two different fruit fly species, a new study finds. The work demonstrates that conserved genes – the same ...

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In an unusual move, a portion of Los Angeles County has been placed under quarantine after after an invasive species was detected in the area. More than 20 Tau fruit flies have been detected in the ...

Some of Orange County has been placed under a quarantine due to an invasive fruit fly species, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which told residents in affected areas to ...