A group of researchers was able to successfully engineer "virgin birth" in fruit flies. Asexual reproduction, or parthenogenesis, is common in nature, but had never been engineered. The research ...

For the first time, scientists have induced facultative parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction, in an animal that usually reproduces sexually. An estimated 76 percent of fruit flies can ...

A research group found that in female fruit flies, microorganisms enhance reproductive function, boosting the number of cells that form eggs and the number of mature eggs. This is done by controlling ...

Drosophila is one of the most thoroughly studied lab animals -- with the exception of the female reproductive tract. Now a team of biologists has taken the first deep look at the Drosophila uterus and ...

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 ...

All it took was the discovery of two, quarter-inch Mediterranean fruit flies in Leimert Park to kick off a state level response that now has 69 square miles of Los Angeles County under quarantine, all ...