Refrigerate ripe fruit; cold temperatures slow ripening and discourage fly activity. Stone fruit, citrus, grapes, and berries ...

EAST CONTRA COSTA COUNTY — Crews will begin treating areas of Oakley, Brentwood and Antioch to eradicate invasive peach fruit flies after four were recently discovered, posing what officials call “a ...

In college, I worked briefly in a fruit-fly lab, where I spent most of my time just keeping different fly strains alive. It was not difficult—as anyone with a fruit-fly infestation can tell you—but ...

You won't believe how many I caught with this simple trap.

A way to curb nagging insects has been flying under our radar—an enzyme from fruit fly testes. The compound could control bugs that carry disease and harm crops by stunting their ability to procreate, ...

Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections in an adult fruit ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside the ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Mapping the brain is a daunting task because it contains a huge ...

A 79-square-mile area of Los Angeles County is under quarantine after an invasive fruit fly was found there – the first such quarantine for the pest in the Western Hemisphere, according to California ...

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 ...