by Ian Neubauer | Mar 1, 2023 | Agriculture
Every year, fruit flies destroy hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of fruit and vegetable in Australia. But after three successive years of La Niña, the meteorological phenomenon that lowers temperatures and causes heavy rains, some parts of our country are...
by Virginia Tressider | Feb 10, 2021 | Agriculture, Technology
A new designer fruit fly paves the way for scientists to replace disease-carrying mosquitoes with harmless, genetically modified versions. Normally, the news of a new species of fruit fly would be interesting only for entomologists. But a new species recently...
