Larvae navigate and prefer older, rotting fruit compared to fresh fruit. Most research on food sensation has focused on tastes like sweetness or saltiness. But preferences for food often depend on ...

Ever bite into a luscious-looking apple only to be rewarded with, ugh, a chunk of mealy pulp? Turns out that other creatures - including B. J. Leiderman, who does our theme music - associate the ...

Maggots love to feed on decaying fruit. New research explains how they found this out and the implications for having texture be such a big deal. Ever bite into a luscious-looking apple only to be ...

The researchers established that maggots will not eat food that is too hard or too soft, but if it is just right -- corresponding to days old decaying fruit -- they dig in. Hypothesizing that this ...