The Flying Insect You Should Avoid Killing At All Costs (& It's Not A Wasp Or Bee)

You know bees are beneficial, but you might not know about another beneficial flying insect. Find out what it is and why you ...
Smithsonian Magazine

For National Pollinator Week, Learn Why the National Museum of Natural History is Using a State-of-the-Art Conveyor Belt System to Digitize Thousands of Insect Specimens

The ongoing effort captures high-quality images and collection data in seconds, creating an online database of bees, beetles, butterflies and flies ...
Earth.com

Parasitic fly species loses its wings and eyesight after finding a host, then spends its life crawling through fur and feeding on blood

The parasitic deer fly, deer ked (Lipoptena andaluciensis) loses its wings and eyesight after it settles on a host and burrows into the hair.

Scientists discover a fly that breaks off its wings after landing on a host and gradually loses its eyesight

A small blood-feeding fly found across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas undergoes one of the most dramatic lifestyle ...
EurekAlert!

How many insects fly in the sky above the USA?

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...