Mayflies don't bite and adults only live for a day, but you don't want to get stuck in a swarm. Here's what to know about the ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimize reproduction, making pollination one of ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature's most important ...

Flies are big-time pollinators which have never got the credit they deserve for this service ...

The seaweed fly, Coleopa frigida, inhabits accumulations of seaweeds on the shoreline. Due to the activity of the fly larvae, these "wrack beds" decompose quickly. Evolutionary ecologists have long ...

This photo shows a common green bottle fly. (Photo courtesy of Okayama University)(Kyodo) OKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- Researchers in Japan have found that flies fed excessive amounts of caffeine generally ...

Researchers at the university investigated the use of black soldier fly waste, known as frass, rice husk biochar and coffee ground mixture to produce fertiliser. The biochar is mixed with black ...

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 ...

When lifting a stone during an expedition in the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco, researchers came across an unusual sight: three blowfly larvae living inside a termite nest. “I immediately ...

Fruit flies are important economic pests ... His title is national taxonomist, Diptera, National Identification Services (NIS), USDA-APHIS-PPQ-PHP (Plant Protection and Quarantine, and Plant Health ...

"When we lifted a stone we found a termite mound with three fly larvae that we had never seen before," Vila says. "The water had probably flooded the deeper layers of the nest and the larvae had ...