Everyone has a traumatic story involving fruit flies. Here’s mine: During grad school, I left campus for the summer break.

So, how does an overripe banana tie into this? The aroma of decomposing bananas can attract fruit flies, an essential staple in the hummingbird diet. Despite their size, hummingbirds consume a ...

Warmer weather means fruit flies will be at their worst. Here's how to keep them out of your home before the summer begins.

Insects, such as the fly seen on a banana in this photo, have taste receptors with which they taste chemicals and make important choices about foods, mates and where to deposit their eggs.

Anyone who has fresh fruit in their kitchen is familiar with the little flies. Magically attracted by tiny traces of scent, they appear within the shortest space of time wherever grapes, bananas and ...

Alcohol enhances the production of sex pheromones, which are chemical signals used by fruit flies to attract mates.

Getting rid of fruit flies in your home during the summer can be a real struggle - but many are not aware of the one thing they are not doing that is attracting the presence of these pests even more.

It means each banana plant is genetically almost identical, producing a reliably consistent fruit crop ... other visitors to banana plantations can fly around the world, it spread even more ...

For four weeks Sarvan Singh has salvaged what fruit he can from the floor of his banana plantation in the Tweed Valley. Highly destructive winds ripped through his 8-hectare farm on the Cudgen ...