A mixture of vinegar and dish soap can help you trap flies such as fruit flies ... Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants that eat insects. If you plant them outside, they’ll naturally eat ...

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As gardening season blooms across California, officials with the California Department of Food and Agriculture are urging ...

Fruit flies are often a good first guess when ... eggs in damp potting soil and their larvae live there happily eating fungus and plant matter until they mature. In severe cases, these larvae ...

Making just three genetic changes turned regular fruit flies into “monarch flies,” able to withstand plant toxins and store the chemicals as the flies transformed from maggots to adults ...

It may sound trivial, but the parasite Gamasodes queenslandicus poses a potentially deadly threat to fruit flies, UC professor and study co-author Michal Polak said. “If they have too many mites ...

Some fruit flies sacrifice sleep to avoid parasites like mites. Researchers discovered marked differences in gene expression related to metabolism in the hypervigilant flies. If you think ...