The male fly approaches the female from below during mating and researchers believe that their eyes have evolved to determine whether the female is truly full of eggs or just pretending to be ...

Though you may have watched male lesser house flies ( Fannia canicularis ) in their constant dance around your lounge room light and loaned your back to bush flies ( Musca vetustissima >) on a hot ...

“This prompts flies to abandon their courtship and escape the threat.” But as the courtship progressed and the male fly got closer to his goal of mating, something changed. The dopamine levels in his ...

So male fruit flies, essentially, know when they've reached the optimal level of inebriation to attract more females and successfully mate, before they become so intoxicated that they repulse the ...

Male flies are therefore strongly attracted to alcohol, especially when they are not yet mated. Three different neural circuits in the flies' brains control the response when the flies smell alcohol.

But male flies, in turn, have sharpened their eyesight to call their bluff. A new study by researchers from the Universities ...

Female flies also tend to live longer than male flies, and “an adult female house fly typically lives for about 25 days (males live for about 15 days),” according to Terminix.