Feeding female fruit flies a diet low in the amino acid tyrosine improves their ability to endure food shortage, reduces their reproductive output, and causes them to live longer, RIKEN researchers ...
MSU researchers reared and released a small number of samba wasps in 2022. The wasps were released in “postharvest scenarios” in the wooded edges of cherry and blueberry plantings, where SWD often ...
Unlike the house fly, it is not known to spread disease. Their life cycle lasts just weeks, and they lay between 500 and 900 eggs. The larvae devour decaying organic items — from rotting fruit ...
from rotting fruit and vegetables to kitchen scraps and animal manure, and turn them into a rich protein source for livestock. "This is an enabler because the black soldier fly maggots ...