It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into ...

In a new study published in the journal PLOS Biology, researchers found that when it comes to food preferences, texture can be just as important as taste in fruit fly maggots. The lead author and ...

They fed fruit-fly larvae — maggots — different preparations of agarose, a sugary gel. The maggots showed a propensity for a ‘Goldilocks’ preparation, one that was neither too hard nor too ...