The adult flies are attracted to overripe fruit, vegetables, and fermenting foods, as well as wine, beer, vinegar, and fruit juice. They are about 1/8 of an inch long and have a brownish yellow or ...

You gotta love the fruit fly. Sure, they start out as revolting maggots, devour ripening fruit and infest the garbage pail. But they’re also invaluable scientific model organisms. The bristly bugs ...

Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the ebony-body allele (e) is recessive to the normal yellow-body allele (E). Say you are given a male fly with a ...

The fruit fly is innocuous to people but feeds on more ... a tiny insect (about ⅛ inch). The ACP nymphs are yellow orange in color and feed on new growth, leaving behind a waxy fluid.

The sterile fruit flies will be released weekly to combat Mediterranean fruit fly infestations. The flies threaten over 250 ...