Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy.

An estimated 30,000 species of fly (Diptera) call Australia home ... Hover flies are potential pollinators of several native plants. The larvae of many common hover fly species prey on pest ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495920 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495920 Larvae of phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon have the unusual habit of decapitating fire ...

Members of the insect order Diptera -- known as true flies ... Extinction Would Be Disastrous Many ecosystems rely on flies and fly larvae — especially that of the black soldier fly ...

Long ago, nurses attending dreadfully mangled soldiers on the battlefield discovered to their surprise that those whose injuries were infested with the maggots (larvae ... cellophane-like wings, ...

An innovative and low-cost project aims to bio-convert food scraps into fertilizer, animal feed and extractable oil using the ...

This adaptation improves the flies' ability to locate hosts for their larvae, increasing their chances of survival. "It's important to understand how the sensory systems of eavesdroppers evolve ...

Male crickets in Hawaii softened their chirps once parasitic flies started hunting them. Now, it seems, the flies are homing in on the new tunes.