If your kitchen has been invaded by a swarm of fruit flies in recent weeks, you're not alone. They can typically be found hovering over trash cans and sinks from late summer to mid-fall most years, ...

Something buzzing around your kitchen? It might be fruit flies. Here's what attracts them, plus several homemade fruit fly traps you can DIY.

Five different species of fruit flies have finally been eradicated from nine different California counties, marking a successful effort involving traps, backyard treatments, prohibitions against fruit ...

Fruit flies can be found anywhere there are overripe fruits and vegetables, dirty sink drains, or food "slime" in trash cans. It feels like they will never go away because the reproductive potential ...

Just when you thought you were safe to enjoy your fall harvest, the fruit flies have decided to move in. You bring home one too many apples from the orchard, and suddenly your kitchen is swarming with ...

Got a fruit fly problem? This is a common issue, especially during the summer, says Laurie Stevison, associate professor of biology at Auburn University. She works with fruit flies in her research.

It's happened to all of us—the bunch of bananas meant to be used in smoothies or enjoyed as a healthy snack is now sitting on the kitchen counter, turning a not-so-appetizing shade of brown. Besides ...

Nine months after it began, a quarantine to limit the spread of the Oriental fruit fly has been lifted. The California Department of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Riverside ...

A consortium of scientists published the first complete map of a fruit fly's brain Wednesday in the journal Nature. Identifying and charting the 130,000 neurons and 50 million connections inside the ...

The country’s National Control and Eradication Plan for the fruit fly pest invested nearly $3.5 million in 2025, managing 66 ...