If tiny winged bugs have you constantly reaching for the flyswatter, you may be dealing with a bothersome fly infestation in your home. The question is, what kind of flies are they? Drain flies (also ...

Two decades ago, thousands of flies, bugs and beetles met their end in insect traps set up at 11 sites around Great Smoky Mountains National Park, part of a still-young effort to catalogue every ...

Crane flies are found all around the world. These gangly insects look a lot like large mosquitoes, but they’re harmless. Crane flies don’t bite, and many of them don’t even have mouths! Though they ...

In a new study published in the Ecological Society of America’s journal Ecological Monographs, entomologist C. Scott Clem, his former advisor Alexandra Harmon-Threatt from the University of Illinois ...

A crane fly, insect family Tipulidae, is a large fly with long, slender legs that looks like a giant mosquito. They’re sometimes called mosquito hawks or skeeter eaters because they’re said to eat ...

Some of Orange County has been placed under a quarantine due to an invasive fruit fly species, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which told residents in affected areas to ...

Entomologist Thomas Werner has studied fruit flies from coast to coast. But his rarest discovery to date was close to home. Armed with a banana-baited live trap and a strong desire to disprove a gap ...

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has placed the cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove under quarantine to try to stop the spread of the oriental fruit fly. The state has also started ...

At last — superflies to save us from the murder hornets. Australian scientists have named five recently discovered fly breeds after Marvel Comics characters. The vigilante insects — Deadpool, Thor, ...

The size of a fly's eyes and nose reflect both its behavior during mating and its habitat preferences, according to a new study published today in eLife. The findings could help explain how new ...