You can get rid of fruit flies fast effectively—and naturally—with things you probably already have in your kitchen.

You never see fruit flies in grocery stores. You don’t see them in the grocery bags on the way home. But as soon as your room ...

Once the weather warms, it takes less time for fruit fly eggs to turn into babies. Cleaning is the key to preventing fruit flies from taking over your kitchen. Keeping your place as dry and free ...

The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

Changing amino acids one at a time, the researchers discovered that all three are needed to produce fruit flies that, from the egg stage through adulthood, can survive exposure to the chemicals.

Third, they breed quickly. Females can lay 30-50 eggs a day; the eggs hatch within two weeks (maybe the expression should be “breed like fruit flies”). Several generations can be bred within the span ...

Fruit flies are already known to evolve at a speedy pace ... changed across four experimental time points by sampling 2,500 eggs from each cage at one, two, three, and four months after the start of ...

The Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) ("medfly"), attacks over 250 species of fruits and vegetables. Females puncture fruit when they lay eggs and hatched larvae destroy the fruit. With ...