Dealing with a fly infestation at home is annoying. Orange County had one that spanned almost 100 square miles.

An entomologist describes how the sap-sucking insects can weaken grapevines and reduce fruit yield and quality.

Cherry farmers in Michigan continue to combat the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly native to Asia that has terrorized ...

By dropping the sterile, fully developed flies, the USDA plans to prevent flesh-eating maggots from reaching the United ...

The hot weather brings unwanted visitors in the form of fruit flies; here’s how to stop them from taking over your kitchen ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico ...

A widely-used agricultural chemical sprayed on fruits and vegetables to prevent fungal disease is also killing beneficial ...

Bats are surprisingly good swimmers, but this little guy needed a hand to make it out of this Queensland pool.

Kern's $3.7 billion citrus and almond industries — making up 40% of the county's agricultural value, per KERO — are on the ...

Abstracts The objective of this study was to evaluate the diversity of fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) species that use myrtaceous fruit, particularly guava, as hosts in several localities in the ...