CHICAGO (Reuters) - The brains of flies are wired to avoid the swatter, U.S. researchers said on Thursday. At the mere hint of a threat, the insects adjust their preflight stance to flee in the ...

Fruit fly brains are smaller than a poppy seed, but that doesn't mean they aren't complex. For the first time, researchers have published a complete diagram of 50 million connections in an adult fruit ...

The New Oxford American Dictionary defines “fly swatter” as “an implement used for swatting insects, typically a square of plastic mesh attached to a wire handle.” I beg to differ. An ...

Scientists have identified an automatic behavior in flies that helps them assess wind conditions -- its presence and direction -- before deploying a strategy to follow a scent to its source. The fact ...

COLTON, Calif. -- The city of Colton unlimbered its fly-swatter Wednesday, and took aim at the tiny Delhi Sands flower-loving fly -- the only fly ever to make the endangered species list. The city ...

A thin paperback enjoys an honored place on my bookshelf. It is Vincent Dethier's "To Know a Fly." Since it was published in 1962, I have read this book at least a dozen times. It is a wonderful ...