Drosophila reared on a medium containing geraniol showed reduced aversion to its odour when adult. Experiments show that this change is caused by a form of habituation and is not associative learning.

A new species of wasp has been discovered that lays its eggs inside adult fruit flies. The wasp larva grows inside the fly ...

have a kind of stretch sensor in the esophagus (grey structure in the middle). It reports swallowing processes to the brain. If food is ingested, special neurons of the enteric nervous system (red ...

The NSF awarded the Mathew lab $750,000 to study how hunger shapes smell-related decision-making in insects. Mathew and his lab study the larvae of Drosophila melanogaster, commonly known as the fruit ...

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 ...

When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir — two jars full of fruit flies. The biochemist had been conducting postdoctoral research at the ...

Drain flies and fruit flies might look the same at first glance. Our experts explain how to tell them apart, and how to get ...

Salil Bidaye is an expert at using the powerful research model Drosophila Melanogaster (aka the fruit fly) to understand how neural circuit activity leads to precise and complex behaviors such as ...

FRUIT FLIES are smart. For a start—the clue is in the name—they can fly. They can also flirt; fight; form complex, long-term memories of their surroundings; and even warn one another about the ...

Growing fruit in northwestern Michigan is getting harder, with pests and whipsaw weather ruining crops and killing orchards.

Fruit flies — along with researchers at the Clemson University Center for Human Genetics — could be the key to identifying potential therapeutics for Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare and fatal ...