Male flies are better at mating after fighting off a robotic rival

Male fruit flies reared in a lab are extra profitable at mating after an encounter with a robotic dummy designed to seem like a rival male. The discovering might increase efforts to regulate populations of the flies, that are a significant crop pest.

The Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) is among the most harmful fruit pests on the earth, discovered on each continent besides Antarctica. There have been numerous makes an attempt to rein it in by releasing giant numbers of …