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 ...

They are annoying, pesky and won’t leave you alone. They look like little bees. Most people think they are sweat bees because of their black and yellow stripes but they don’t sting despite their ...

If you live in the Miami Valley and have been outdoors lately, chances are you have been swatting hover or syrphid flies. They are not the same as sweat bees. In 2018, as I was preparing to drive to a ...

Being outside in Indiana this time of year is usually fine — unless you're swatting away buzzing insects. More than likely, you don't need to be alarmed by what's buzzing around, especially if you're ...

A clear plastic container holding watery yellow-brown termite faeces has pride of place in the office of dipterologist, John Midgley, at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in South Africa. He often searches the ...

We all welcome the beauty of butterflies, bees and ladybirds – but there are some less well-known and frankly alarming-looking insects which are also beneficial to our gardens. Anton Rosenfeld, ...