The answer is reproduction – the titan arum needs pollinators such as flies, and flies like dead things ... But people tend ...

All animals, large or small, have to move at an incredible precision to interact with the world. Understanding how the brain ...

The flies were found in and around the cities Santa Ana and Garden Grove, prompting officials to block off an 87-square mile ...

With biomanufacturing often a limiting factor for drug developers, Canada’s Future Fields is heralding its bug-based approach ...

Human use of parasitoid wasps or other natural enemies to control pest populations is known as biological control, or ...

For larger animals, this is challenging because of the complexity of their brains and nervous systems. But the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has a smaller and therefore more easily mappable ...

For larger animals, this is challenging because of the complexity of their brains and nervous systems. But the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, has a smaller and therefore more easily mappable ...

The white stuff that engulfs these flies is a fungus called Entomophthora muscae — Entomophthora translates to “ destroyer of insects .” It’s an obligate pathogen, entirely dependent on its host, that ...

A new study published in the journal PNAS offers insights into the biological mechanism behind this connection. Using fruit ...

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, along with a team of UNM students ...

A portion of Orange County has been placed under quarantine for Oriental fruit fly following detections of multiple flies.

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...