If your kitchen has been invaded by a swarm of fruit flies in recent weeks, you're not alone. They can typically be found hovering over trash cans and sinks from late summer to mid-fall most years, ...

If the song “Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me” is ringing in your ears, you may be dealing with a bothersome fly infestation in your home. There are drain flies (also known as moth, filter, or sewage flies) ...

It's that time of year again when you leave a piece of fruit on the counter for five minutes and suddenly your kitchen is hosting a rave for a thousand tiny, uninvited guests. Yes, the fruit flies are ...

Late summer and early fall mean peak fruit season, with tons of perfect produce—blueberries, blackberries, peaches, grapes, apples and more—popping up in the grocery stores and farmers' markets. The ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- A fruit fly infestation is causing problems for farmers, and an orchard dedicated to growing fruit for food banks is now making changes because of a quarantine across Santa ...

USDA has cut by more than half the number of quarantines imposed in California over the last year to prevent the spread of fruit fly discovered in the Los Angeles area last July. Seven statewide ...

Five different species of fruit flies have finally been eradicated from nine different California counties, marking a successful effort involving traps, backyard treatments, prohibitions against fruit ...

A specialist checks a Medfly trap in the 1980s, as an explosion of flies led to new tools. (photo: USDA) For decades Los Angeles was ground zero in an escalating pesticide war against Medflies. Then ...

Over 2 million fruit flies will be released in Los Angeles as environmental officials try to fight against an invasive species. The idea of bombarding the Leimert Park neighborhood with pests came ...