In her doctoral research at Columbia University, Ganguly creates models of the neuronal connections in the fruit fly brain ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

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Most people store bananas in a fruit bowl - but this is actually a big mistake, and there's a much better way to stop your fruit going mushy.

Fortunately, out of the more than 110,000 species of flies, only a few types are common pests around the house. “The ones that cause the most problems are called filth flies. But they’re doing what ...

Fruit flies are about an eighth of an inch long, have red eyes (though some species have darker eyes) and are light brown with dark rings around their abdomen. They also have two wings (many ...