A Murray State University biology professor has been credited with the discovery of a new species of parasitic fly.
Dr. Oliver Beckers, Murray State University principal investigator and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, has made quite the discovery: a new species of fly.
When closely related species mate, their offspring sometimes survive but cannot reproduce. This pattern often affects males ...
Most lethal mutations in wild fruit flies are driven by newly transferred jumping genes, not small DNA errors, according to a ...
Entomologist Thomas Werner has studied fruit flies from coast to coast. But his rarest discovery to date was close to home. Armed with a banana-baited live trap and a strong desire to disprove a gap ...
The California Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove under quarantine to try to stop the spread of the oriental fruit fly. The state has also started ...
When Vasilis Rodovitis rips open his brown paper bag in a sunny persimmon orchard just outside Naousa, in Greece, I half ...