Bad seasons result in devastating financial losses for farmers. Farmers devastated after disaster strikes crucial crops: 'No ...

Mimicking a ketogenic diet lengthens lifespan but reduces fertility in fruit flies, researchers at the University of ...

A major biosecurity operation is underway in a central Auckland suburb after the discovery of a Queensland fruit fly, with ...

Botanists also name an overlooked snowdrop growing in the UK and a fruit that tastes like banana and guava ...

“There have been 13 incursions of different fruit fly in Auckland and Northland since 1996 and all have been successfully ...

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Texas Department of Agriculture have quarantined more than 1,000 acres of farmland across Hidalgo and Cameron counties in South Texas, according to ...

An unlikely species of fruit fly discovered in Los Angeles County has prompted officials to urge residents within a quarantine zone to take precautions. “A Caribbean fruit fly has been found near ...

During early development, tissues and organs begin to bloom through the shifting, splitting, and growing of many thousands of cells. A team of MIT engineers has now developed a way to predict, minute ...

Biosecurity officials in Fiji are sounding the alarm after detecting an invasive species on several of the nation's islands. The presence of the species puts numerous crops at risk. The Biosecurity ...

This summer, a small number of invasive Mediterranean fruit flies were detected in San Jose. In response, the state started doing something that might seem strange: releasing millions more fruit flies ...

I hate bugs inside my home. And while fruit flies are the least serious offender in my mind (bed bugs and roaches are much worse), some people can’t stand them. Instead of swatting at the air in a ...

Using fruit flies, University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed a new model for investigating the genetic drivers of a rare but aggressive brain tumor in children. The work has already ...