If tiny winged bugs have you constantly reaching for the flyswatter, you may be dealing with a bothersome fly infestation in your home. The question is, what kind of flies are they? Drain flies (also ...

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The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

Entomologist Thomas Werner has studied fruit flies from coast to coast. But his rarest discovery to date was close to home. Armed with a banana-baited live trap and a strong desire to disprove a gap ...

If you’ve ever walked into your home to find tiny flies lazing around your fruit bowl or houseplants, you’re not alone. Gnats and fruit flies are two of the most common household pests, and they show ...

It's that time of year again when you leave a piece of fruit on the counter for five minutes and suddenly your kitchen is hosting a rave for a thousand tiny, uninvited guests. Yes, the fruit flies are ...

Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit flies, are convenient research tools. It is easy and inexpensive to raise large numbers of them, they develop quickly, scientists know all about their genome and how ...