In an evolutionary battle of the sexes, scientists have found that male flies sharpen their eyesight to avoid being tricked ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn ...

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 ...

Zombie Fly Fungus Lures Healthy Male Flies to Mate With Female Corpses July 15, 2022 — A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies.

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 ...

When mating, the male fly brings a gift, usually a dead insect, which he gives to the female. The female rarely hunts on her own and relies on the protein from the insect to produce eggs.