A “rare and potentially destructive” fruit fly larvae was seized from a traveler in the Detroit airport, customs officials ...

ROMULUS, Mich. (WXYZ) — The live larvae of a rare fruit fly was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection earlier this year, according to the department's ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted "rare and potentially destructive" fruit fly larvae from the Detroit Metro Airport that could have had a detrimental impact on agriculture if ...

Parts of Southern California are under quarantine after oriental fruit flies were detected, officials announced. The eight flies were found in and around the cities Santa Ana and Garden Grove ...

They have released the first ever complete diagram of an entire fruit fly brain. Sure, fruit flies are very small, and their ...

Fruit flies can be a nuisance throughout the year, even during winter. Despite being most prevalent in summer and autumn, these pests may invade your home during colder months as they seek warmth ...

A rare kind of fruit fly has been caught by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agriculture specialists at Detroit Metro Airport. In June, CBP said live larvae were found in fresh caper flowers.

That way, if fruit fly damages a fruit and it falls to the ground, the chickens with eat the fruit – and the fruit fly. So instead of rotting fruit, you get more eggs. If fruit fly to survive ...

Controlling fruit flies requires various strategies, as toxic chemicals are now banned. So how can you rid yourself of these pesky insects once they’ve taken hold? Passiflora coccinea or red ...

One example of this is in the Drosophila (fruit fly) abdominal epithelium during metamorphosis, where larval epidermal cells (LECs) are replaced by histoblasts, which are the precursors of the ...

Israel Wipf, a graduate student in the Department of Biology, won the 2024 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, in which ...