Fruit flies have been trending on Delaware social media and all anyone wants to know is: "How do I get rid of them?" The winged specks are only an eighth of an inch long, but they can be very annoying ...

As soon as the temperature rises, I notice a swarm of fruit flies taking up residency in my kitchen. And while I’m not one to turn guests away, I don’t want to encourage pests into my home. Despite ...

Have you ever unpeeled a banana and found tiny flies crawling around it, or had other produce swarmed by insects? You might be experiencing an influx of fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster), which ...

It's happened to all of us—the bunch of bananas meant to be used in smoothies or enjoyed as a healthy snack is now sitting on the kitchen counter, turning a not-so-appetizing shade of brown. Besides ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove under quarantine to try to stop the spread of the oriental fruit fly. The state has also started ...

Just under a year after California began contending with a spread of invasive fruit flies not seen before in such large quantities, state and federal environmental officials announced that the pests ...

Parts of Southern California are under quarantine after oriental fruit flies were detected, officials announced. The eight flies were found in and around the cities Santa Ana and Garden Grove, ...