Wondering how to get rid of fruit flies? Amazon shoppers say this under-$4 fruit fly trap ensures pests are ‘gone in a couple ...

Ilha Grande is one of the most bat-diverse areas in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with 37 documented species. This accounts ...

Researchers have found a new role for the transcription factor (proteins that regulate the transcription, or copying, of genes). In the fruit fly, this transcription factor, named Traffic Jam, ...

The Malayan flying fox has many names, including the greater flying fox, kalong, and large fruit bat. Its most accurate name ...

Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) are especially attracted to the smell of fermenting fruit, often swarming our kitchens ...

For decades, Corey Tarwater and her research team have used mist nets by day to capture various species of tropical birds in ...

Part of this explosion is being attributed to newly designed bats that the Yankees are using. They are being called "torpedo" bats because of the untraditional barrel that rests closer to the ...

Humans are pushing many of North America’s pollinators dangerously close to extinction, according to a newly released study.

Morgan's experiments are not only fundamental to our knowledge of heredity; they have also made an animal respectable for science, which previously only a few specialists had worked with: the fruit, ...

Fruit fly mutants that have severe sleep deficits perform better at olfactory learning and memory tasks, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sheng Huang and ...

A Qantas flight scheduled to fly out of Rockhampton last month had to be cancelled after it struck a bat on its arrival to the city. The council said in a statement it did not record the number of ...

Engineers in Somerset are building a helicopter that is set to fly itself - without the need for humans to operate it remotely - in a research project for the Royal Navy. There have been ...