Sensation of electric fields in the Drosophila melanogaster larva. Current Biology, 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.014 ...

Adaptation speculation The authors aren’t certain why Drosophila larvae evolved electroreception, but they’ve developed some hypotheses along the way.

Once eaten by a human, the L3 larvae try to complete their life cycle by burrowing into tissue out of the intestines to get to the brain, traveling either through the blood or along nerves.

This egg then hatches into a wasp larva that sits inside the fruit fly for roughly 18 days. In the lab, the team saw that Syntretus perlmani larvae will exit the host about 23 days by bursting out ...

In the lab, mature S. perlmani larvae exited their hosts, explored for a few hours and then buried themselves in whatever substrate the researchers provided.

Summary: This manuscript investigates how energetic demands affect the sleep-wake cycle in Drosophila larvae. L2 stage larvae do not show sleep rhythm and long-term memory (LTM), however, L3 larvae do ...

In 2019, Abram went looking for spotted-wing drosophila in a raspberry field near Agassiz, B.C. There, to his surprise, he found the tiny ronin and samba wasps flying around the fruit.

Chilling can help slow and even stop the development of larvae. These fruits are safe to eat as there is no known risk to human health from eating spotted wing drosophila.

B: Blockage ratio for control L3 larvae or mutants of the IMD pathway fed 1h with a mixture combining yeast and Lp or Ecc or Bt. Shown is the average with 95% confidence interval of at least 3 ...

The invasive spotted-wing drosophila flies spoil crops by laying eggs inside healthy fruit like cherries and berries, where larvae can remain during ripening and cause sour rot or fungal disease ...

Sterile male flies released in fields mate with females that then produce fewer viable offspring, drastically reducing the damage the larvae of spotted wing drosophila do to fruit crops ...