They're the hulking hardware of a fossil fuel industry being blamed for climate change. But now scientists have discovered that North Sea oil rigs are being used as migratory stop-off points by ...

More than a third of hoverflies, a key pollinator of crops, are under threat of extinction in Europe, a new assessment has warned. The analysis from the International Union for Conservation of Nature ...

Every spring, the UK receives swarms of insect visitors from mainland Europe—among them two species of particularly beneficial hoverflies. For the first time, researchers have quantified the sheer ...

Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to help direct them when flying south for the winter, new research shows. Findings show the insects keep the sun on their left in the ...

Hoverflies use the sun and their body clock to help them navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows. In the mornings the insects keep the sun on their left, and then gradually ...

Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter (Will Hawkes/University of Exeter/PA) Hoverflies use the sun and their body clock to help ...

Hoverflies use the sun and their body clock to help them navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows. In the mornings the insects keep the sun on their left, and then gradually ...