Fruit Flies Track Odor Plume Edges Using Spatial Memory, Study Finds

animal behavior

30 July 2026 at 5:24 am

Fruit Flies Track Odor Plume Edges Using Spatial Memory, Study Finds

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New virtual-reality experiments show that Drosophila fruit flies use a memory-guided navigational toolkit to track the edge of odor plumes towards their source, similar to how ants and bees navigate to fixed locations.

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