To lower nuisance populations and reduce disease transmission, the district has a new project that sterilizes small male ...

Mosquito season has arrived in Southern California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to ...

That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite. “There’s not a lot of things that we can all ...

That’s the waking nightmare one species of Australian fruit fly must contend with each night as hungry mites stalk and attach themselves like a tick while the fly is sleeping in the fruit ...

Scientists have long turned to simpler organisms to help answer these questions, with the humble fruit fly emerging as an ideal candidate. These tiny insects share many genes with humans that are ...

Researchers have found that besides sharks, bees and platypus, even fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields and navigate toward the negative electric potential using a small set of sensory ...

The fruit fly is innocuous to people but feed on more than 40 types of fruits and vegetables. Invasive fruit fly larvae can infest homegrown fruit maturing into adult flies, then migrating into ...

Understanding this parasitic fly larva and the risk it may pose is the first step for preventing infestation Maggots. The very word invokes revulsion in many people. For veterinary professionals, the ...

Biosecurity New Zealand today lifted controls on movement of fruit and vegetables in the North Shore suburb of Birkdale following no further finds of fruit flies since a single male Oriental fruit ...

These traps are set for three exotic fruit fly species of concern: the Queensland fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit ... for any signs of fruit fly eggs or larvae. More than 70 Biosecurity New Zealand ...

These traps are set for three exotic fruit fly species of concern: the Queensland fruit fly, Mediterranean fruit fly and Oriental ... collected and examined for any signs of fruit fly eggs or larvae.