Detection is accomplished via fruit fly trapping programs and is especially critical in urban, suburban, and environmentally sensitive areas where large-scale application of pesticides can't be done.

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) researchers are unraveling the secrets of the fruit fly brain to advance robotics. A team from the institution's Neuroengineering Laboratory have used ...