An expert entomologist explains the best (and worst) methods for ridding your kitchen of those annoying little flies.

If you see what looks like small fruit ... fungus gnats and their eggs. Fruit flies are small, tan, or gray insects with tiny ...

They tend to be attracted to things people regularly have in their homes like ... fruit, which tends to ripen and rot more quickly. Once the flies get in your house, she said, they'll lay eggs ...

Flies normally prefer to lay eggs in non-alcoholic food. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 22, 2013, issue of Science , published by AAAS.

According to APHIS, oriental fruit flies have a pointed tube-like organ called an ovipositor that they use to lay eggs underneath the fruit's skin. Their eggs, the agency said, are tiny ...

According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the oriental fruit fly, an invasive species that lays eggs inside fruit, making it “unfit for consumption,” has been detected in ...