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The female receives a dead insect as a gift from the male during mating. The gift provides the female with the necessary protein to produce eggs. If the male arrives empty-handed, he is rejected. With ...

Male fruit flies reared in a lab are more successful at mating after an encounter with a robotic dummy designed to look like a rival male. The finding could boost efforts to control populations of the ...

Male stalk-eyed flies with longer eyestalks are more attractive to females and more intimidating to males — but males with a genetic variant that causes shorter eyestalks are fiercer fighters In stalk ...

During sex, male fruit flies transfer a chemical that makes females sleep later, missing the chance to mate with other males. “The loss of anticipation [of the dawn] could further reduce receptivity ...

House flies can be a common nuisance inside a home. Warmer seasons, like the summer, can be “prime time” for house fly infestations. Many people describe an annual phenomenon where flies that seemed ...

With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates. But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study suggests ...