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(CN) — The next time you see a fruit fly buzzing around, remember that there’s a lot more going on in its tiny brain than meets the eye — especially when love, or at least mating, is on the line. Male ...

Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey with rivals. This new understanding of how male flies compete for female partners could shed light ...

In an extraordinary study, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany have discovered that male fruit flies become more appealing to females after consuming alcohol. The ...

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A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies. The longer a female fly carcass has lain and rotted, the greater the male's lust. Entomophthora muscae is a ...

These love bugs like going out with a bang. Humans are apparently not the only species that doesn’t social distance amid sickness: UK researchers found that fruit flies continue to copulate even when ...

In the frigid landscapes of the Northern Hemisphere, a resilient and often overlooked insect species thrive — the snow flies, scientifically known as Chionea. You may have seen these small insects ...

Ounce-for-ounce, they have one of the most vicious bites of any being in Florida, and late spring is when they're most likely to track you down and start eating you alive. Deer and horse flies will ...

For fruit flies, finding the right mate is all about the right song. Now, research shows that male flies don’t just try to impress their valentine by serenading her with song—they also go to great ...