Gnats, drain flies, and fruit flies are all attracted to damp places and organic matter, so it’s easy to confuse the three insects. Gnats look like small mosquitoes and are usually dark gray or black.

Their target includes anything that moves and has a dark shade. Their persistence is notable as they won’t give up biting their chosen target until they get their blood meal or meet their end. Many ...

Fruit flies with gut tumors showed an increased preference for a bitter antitumor compound compared to healthy flies, ...

Researchers map the whole brain of Drosophila melanogaster, or the fruit fly, which comprises about 140,000 neurons and over ...

The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers' understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly's ...

For decades, researchers had a theory about how an animal's brain keeps track of where it is relative to its surroundings without outside cues – like how we know where we are, even with our eyes close ...

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