In a new paper, scientists make a compelling case for preserving migration corridors for hundreds of species of tiny flies.

That’s why learning how to get rid of fruit flies is vital, especially if you love a countertop fruit bowl. “They especially ...

Benzer and Konopka doused thousands of fruit flies in toxic chemicals that induced genetic mutations. The offspring of these ill-fated insects were then observed over the course of 24 hours. Most ...

Tens of thousands of tiny painters work in John Knuth’s studio ... cover his canvases with splotches of colored vomit. The painters are flies, and Knuth is taking advantage of a quirk of the fly ...

People have been using chocolate for thousands of years. Today ... They look like bees and pollinate flowers, but these fluffy flies have a gruesome teenage stage that makes them one of the most ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist feeds thousands of these insects, a mere three ...

Outwardly, fruit flies and humans have little in common. It is all the more astonishing that roughly 60 percent of the fly's genes can also be found in humans in a similar form. Many insights gained ...