These expert-backed tips from an entomologist will help banish fruit flies and keep your kitchen pest-free for good.

Fruit flies, which, like humans ... So this summer, look carefully at your fruit bowl and see if you can spot a small yellow-brown insect flying around it. Then remember all the ways Drosophila ...

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Traps should be checked 1-2 times per week for SWD flies - more often if fruit is harvestable, by looking on the yellow sticky trap (if used) and in the liquid drowning solution. Records should be ...

collapse of the fruit, and contamination with larvae. SWD flies are small (2.5–3 mm; ~0.1 inches), light yellow or brown, and with red eyes. Males have a distinctive black spot on each wing near the ...

One of the world’s most destructive pests has been detected in an Adelaide eastern suburbs area and strict quarantine ...

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, University of Iowa researchers found a gene that orchestrates the antenna movements of female ...

Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the ebony-body allele (e) is recessive to the normal yellow-body allele (E). Say you are given a male fly with a ...