Midsummer is a time for flying insects. They can be found deep in the woods and flitting around ponds and rivers, but wherever they may be, they have to land eventually. Recently, a few other people ...

Hover flies have one set of wings and no stinger. If you've been outside lately, chances are you've seen them — small flying insects that resemble sweat bees. In fact, you may have actually called ...

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...

The winter is usually when insects die or go into a state of paused development, but for tiny specks on the white snow called snow flies, it's time to run around, find a lover and make baby snow flies ...