The life of a fruit fly consists of four phases: egg, larva, pupa and fully-formed fly. At 25 degrees, the fly embryo hatches one day after the egg is laid, and it then lives for five days as a larva.

Fruit flies do not require much space and make few demands on their environment ... Thereafter, they pass through three larval and one pupal stage until they become fully-formed flies. In this way, ...

467-477 (11 pages) The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann ... Its goal was to produce 500 million good quality pupae per week to release over the control area as sterile ...

The pupal stage lasts about one week ... while males live for 15 days, states Terminix. Fruit flies, however, live longer than houseflies. Their lifespan is about 40 to 50 days, according to ...

There's no evidence of a breeding population after the discovery of a second fruit fly on Thursday, according to New Zealand's head of biosecurity.

Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe have been lifted after no further ...