W ith bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study by ...

Male fruit flies enjoy ejaculating, according to research published yesterday (April 20) in Current Biology. The study also found that when fruit flies are denied sex, they consume more alcohol than ...

8 Beach and Maselko used the fly Drosophila melanogaster to test the proof of concept of the method they dubbed toxic male technique (TMT). They genetically engineered male flies to produce the ...

How Fruit Flies Flit Between Courtship and Aggression to Fight for Mates Feb. 13, 2025 — Male fruit flies don't just sing to their mates; they also use sound-cancelling wing-flicks to jockey ...

Male crickets in Hawaii softened their chirps once parasitic flies started hunting them. Now, it seems, the flies are homing in on the new tunes.

In these flies, courtship is based on an exchange of food. Before mating, the male offers a gift to the female, usually a dead insect. This offering is crucial for reproduction, as females ...

Fruit flies normally have brilliant, red-colored eyes, although occasionally, male flies with white eyes would appear in Morgan's laboratory (Figure 5). Intrigued by these white-eyed males ...

85, No. 1, Mar., 2002 Effects of Post-Teneral Nutrition on Rep... To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of behavioral challenges during which they ...

Single-Gene Test Crosses Recall that in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the ebony-body allele (e) is recessive to the normal yellow-body allele (E). Say you are given a male fly with a ...

In turn, the parasitic flies have improved in their ability to find the location of male crickets for the larvae to incubate and develop in –– leading to the decline of crickets that do not ...