The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on rotting flesh ...

Releasing sterilised males of an invasive fruit fly could make a big impact in curbing its population, which poses a severe threat to global fruit industries. At the start of the growing season in ...

It takes a lot of infrastructure, and money, to build the giant bioreactors experts say are needed to mass produce raw materials to make things like medicine, vaccines and cultivated meat. Matt ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...

To solve these problems, many researchers have proposed deep-learning-based detection algorithms. However, in actual orchards, the accuracy of existing estimation methods is severely limited by ...

Boxes of fruit tree branches lined the walls of the Washington State University Mount Vernon Research and Extension Center on Saturday as a crowd of growers perused the selection. This and classes on ...