The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

To stop the potential spread of the maggot, the USDA is ramping up sterile fly dispersal-a method where sterilized screwworm flies are dropped en masse to disrupt reproduction and collapse the ...

The research team set out to investigate this unique behavior in infected female fruit flies and learn how we might use Wolbachia bacteria to our advantage. In the study, researchers found the ...

The results: In keeping with prior research, male fruit flies who had not yet mated were more drawn to alcohol. Those that consumed methanol showed a marked increase in the levels of pheromones ...

Biologists have known female flies tune their antennae to a frequency similar to the range of sound emanating from a male of a similar species. What they didn't know is how exactly that fine ...

For example, the male annihilation technique (MAT) can be used to suppress males in wild populations of certain pest fruit flies in the subgenus Dacinae (including the genera Bactrocera, Dacus and ...