How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes.In a new study, University of Iowa ...

University of Iowa researchers have found and confirmed a gene that allows female fruit flies to get on the same frequency as courting males. Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ...

As males age, their reproductive success typically declines. A study on fruit flies, led by University of Oxford researchers, ...

Researchers at the University of Iowa have found the gene that orchestrates the fine tuning of antennae in fruit flies so ...

The Department of Agriculture said Friday it has tapped $129 million in emergency funding to battle a worsening incursion of ...

Darwin wasn't the only scientist who thought females couldn't be promiscuous. Angus John Bateman had very similar ideas.

If you're not careful, the problem can easily get out of control, because female fruit flies can quickly lay hundreds of eggs on overripe produce. This may even result in maggots and other bugs ...

The wild female medflies mate with the sterile males ... This tool, however, requires mass production of target fruit fly species in large facilities. APHIS currently operates two large production ...

A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male mosquitoes could help minimise the spread of illnesses linked with the insects.