The rate of development of poikilothermic animals, such as insects, fish, and reptiles, is determined by environmental temperature. A research team has recently demonstrated how temperature can affect ...

Investigating how the production of insulin is regulated in fruit flies reveals surprising insights that may help to better understand how this process unfolds in humans.

You can get rid of fruit flies fast effectively—and naturally—with things you probably already have in your kitchen.

Legal controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables on Auckland’s North Shore will remain in place for the next few weeks ...

Tiny, cold-blooded animals like flies depend on their environment to regulate body temperature, making them ideal "canaries ...

Once the larvae hatch, they mature into adults in just a few days, and the cycle starts all over again. Get rid of them by finding their food source and removing it. This will help stop the process ...

India’s Gaganyaan mission will send Indian astronauts to space with 20 fruit flies due to their 77% gene similarity to humans. This experiment, involving UAS-Dharwad and IIST Thiruvananthapuram ...

Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe have been lifted after no further evidence of the Oriental fruit fly was found in the area, says Mike Inglis ...

Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey with rivals. This new understanding of how male flies compete for female partners could shed ...

Male fruit flies enhance their mating success by jamming rivals' courtship songs with high-frequency wing flicks, disrupting the female's ability to perceive the songs.

The fruit flies will be used to assess how space travel affects living organisms and what kind of biological changes and stresses they go through during the flight. Listen to Story The team will be ...

The answer? Fruit flies. The study found that a specific gene, Shal, controls a potassium ion channel in the Johnston’s organ — a key hearing structure in fruit fly’s antenna that fine-tunes how the ...