The smell will draw them in, but they won't be able to get out, and they (and whatever eggs they end up laying) will spend the rest of their short lives trapped until they (literally) drop like flies.

If you're finding your yard swarmed with flies, it's not just an accident. According to Dr. Jim Fredericks, Board Certified ...

Fruit flies' rate of production is a key factor in what makes them so annoying to homeowners. “Fruit fly females lay eggs in fermenting organic matter (and the) development time is speedy ...

Female S. perlmani use their ovipositors to deposit their eggs in the fruit fly’s abdomen, and 18 days later a larva will burst out of the side of the fly, leaving its host to die.

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 ...

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A small team of biologists at Mississippi State University and the University of Wyoming has found a species of parasitoid wasp that lays its eggs inside of living adult fruit flies. In their ...

A Dartmouth study conducted on fruit flies reports the first evidence that oocytes—the cells that become eggs—regularly rejuvenate the critical protein linkages that bind chromosomes together.