Fruit flies—they're just like us. Meaning, booze seems to boost sexytime for the pesky insect that hovers around fermented ...

Then again, apparently adding alcohol to their food increases the production of sex pheromones in male fruit flies, according ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has investigated why the fruit fly Drosophila ...

Alcohol makes male fruit flies of the species Drosophila melanogaster sexier by stimulating the production of sex pheromones.

The work will be of interest to Drosophila ... identified male fly behaviors such as wing extension, attempted copulation, successful copulation, circling and following the female flies.