As males age, their reproductive success typically declines. A study on fruit flies, led by University of Oxford researchers, ...

Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females, reducing their lifespan and providing a ...

On board are millions of male flies that have been bred, raised and sterilised with radiation to become unwitting foot soldiers in the battle against an enemy named “the man devourer”.

Knipling, to study the fly, according to NPR. Knipling had the idea to develop birth control for male flies, and despite his detractors who thought there was no way to sterilize enough of them ...

A study on fruit flies completed by researchers with Macquarie University suggests that genetic modification of male mosquitoes could help minimise the spread of illnesses linked with the insects.