Whether it's fruit flies lingering in the kitchen or houseflies ... aren't too small for the kind of flies you're trying to trap. Pour apple cider vinegar into a small glass.

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It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

Two problems commonly associated with apple trees plague growers: apple scab and apple maggots. It is too late for remedial action at this time of year but what you do now can affect next ...

Hang scent lures that smell like apples with your traps to make them more attractive to flies. Hang one trap per 100 fruit (after thinning) in each tree. One or two spheres for small trees and five or ...

Some users found their issue wasn’t fruit flies but fungus gnats. It’s worth confirming the infestation by identifying the insect. A lot of users also noted that an ACV and dish soap trap ...

“To date, no other Oriental fruit flies have been found in surveillance traps, which is very encouraging. “We’ll continue to regularly check fruit fly traps, and specialist staff in our ...

Jan. 17 (UPI) --The Department of Agriculture said Friday it has tapped $129 million in emergency funding to battle a worsening incursion of exotic, invasive fruit flies from Mexico and Guatemala.

One of the world’s most destructive pests has been detected in an Adelaide eastern suburbs area and strict quarantine restrictions have been introduced. See the areas affected and what the ...

During the last century, biologists have extensively studied Drosophila melanogaster, the common household fruit fly. It's become one of the most popular model organisms, but not because ...

Most people see fruit flies as a nuisance. A scientist at Washington State University Vancouver sees them as the key to understanding evolution. Seth Rudman, an assistant professor in the School ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena have now discovered that the fruit fly Drosophila busckii has developed a tolerance to the toxic sulfur compound ...