image: Boy fly meets girl fly meets AI: Training an AI to recognize fly mating identifies a gene for mating positions. view more . Credit: Hayato M Yamanouchi, Nagoya University.

In studying the mating rituals of fruit flies, scientists may have learned something about how brains evolve. Story by Science X staff • 6mo.

Additionally, they found that methanol - the alcohol that most boosts mating success - is also deadly in high concentrations. As a result, male flies must decide how much exposure to methanol is ...

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"For generations, male flies with the largest facets have been favored in mating and their genes are passed on" said Luc Bussière, evolutionary biologist at the University of Gothenburg.

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized flies and drop them from the sky.

In the stalk-eyed fly world, it’s the males with longer eyestalks that get the females. Not only do the females prefer males with longer antennae dotted eye-stalks, but other males are also less ...

Oxidant pollutant ozone removes mating barriers between fly species. ScienceDaily . Retrieved July 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 04 / 240411130213.htm ...

A fruit fly courtship in song. Similar to crickets and grasshoppers, fruit flies also use their wings to sing, but they extend and vibrate one wing at a time. For Drosophila melanogaster, only the ...

In a mating experiment, a Drosophila simulans female is courted by a Drosophila mauritiana male. The flies were previously exposed to ozone levels found in urban areas on hot days. Ozone disrupts ...

Boy fly meets girl fly meets AI: Training an AI to recognize fly mating identifies a gene for mating positions. ScienceDaily . Retrieved July 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 ...