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You're sitting at home in your favorite chair, scrolling through your social media feed. From the corner of your eye, you notice something small and black darting around, near your face. You stop for ...

It's not just your bananas they're after. Here's why fruit flies are hanging out in your home, and how to keep them at bay.

They seemingly sneak in overnight and invade your kitchen. Teeny, tiny pests that dart around the apples and bananas as you swat them away out of frustration and confusion. Fruit flies can be a ...

Leaving a bowl filled with apples, bananas, oranges on your kitchen counter may provide easy access for an afternoon snack. But the arrangement--left out over time -- could also attract those pesky ...

Since they have such a thick peel, it’s safe to skip it, right? Not so ...

If you have decaying fruit sitting out in your kitchen you keep forgetting about, let this be a reminder to go ahead and throw it away. That’s unless you want a swarm of fruit flies to make your ...

Summer in Arkansas means so many choices of locally grown produce. From tomatoes to watermelon, peaches to squash, our kitchens are full of them. Unfortunately, many kitchens are also full of fruit ...

A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in response to bacterial infection is explained in a study published in the journal eLife. The findings represent a case of ...

Fruit flies are pesky, nagging, persistent pests that can be difficult to get rid of once and for all, something that TikToker Majda Medved (@majdamedved) experienced first hand in her own home. After ...

Tau fruit flies were found in Los Angeles County. They are considered an invasive species. Severyn Korneyev California Department of Food and Agriculture An invasive species of fruit fly has found its ...