Another fly of note is the stalk-eyed fly (Achias rothschildi). Each eye is further away from its body than its body is long. Eyes on stalks are the fly equivalent of a deer's antlers, and similarly ...

(See T.J. Wardill et al., “A novel interception strategy in a miniature robber fly with extreme visual acuity,” Current Biology, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.050 ...

However, in dancer flies, the opposite is true. Females inflate their abdomens with air and flaunt their hairy legs to appear bigger in the eyes of the males they covet. But the latter ...

Credit: ® Roy Ritchie" /> Credit: ® Roy Ritchie By the end of high school, Patricia Wittkopp was so over fruit flies. They had sparked her passion for genetics, but as she shopped around for an ...

Fruit fly eyes have a different structure than ours do, but they serve similar functions: to detect light from the environment and send that information to the brain. The part of the fly’s brain that ...

Atomic force microscopy, laser ablation, and etching with a witches brew of toxic chemicals: sounds like [Zachary Tong] has been playing in the lab again, and this time he found a way to fabricate ...

Physical barriers and traps are an additional layer of defense. Fly masks are more commonly associated with horses, but they ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Tiny changes in the timing of expression of the gene orthodenticle (otd) can significantly affect eye size in fruit flies. In Drosophila mauritiana, earlier ...