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Scientists have found that a small fly, drosophila, has a receptor for noxious heat.

A new analysis indicates that birds don't fly alone when migrating at night. Some birds, at least, keep together on their migratory journeys, flying in tandem even when they are 200 meters or more apart.

When a young gene known as sphinx is inactivated in the common fruit fly, it leads to increased male-male courtship.

Such behavior is widespread in many fly species, but not in Drosophila melanogaster, which has the sphinx gene.

Other fly species do not. When two D. melanogaster males that lack the sphinx gene are put together, they court each other.

Enormous numbers of migratory moths that fly high above our heads throughout the night aren't at the mercy of the winds that propel them toward their final destinations.

Rather, they rely on sophisticated behaviors to control their flight direction.