High numbers of gout flies are hitting cereal crops this spring, forcing farmers to reduce their yield expectations and in ...

Garden enthusiasts are encouraged to protect this beloved family of plants with a simple cardboard hack to ward off flies ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

Ready for the big change-up? After a long winter of fishing tiny midges, you can start to think about spring bugs, like blue ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

A previously unknown species of wasp with an abdomen reminiscent of a Venus flytrap has been discovered in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber, and entomologists have never seen anything like it.

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...

A new study from the University of Haifa – Oranim Campus, published in the prestigious scientific journal Current Biology, ...

They work as hard as bees to pollinate our plants, often look and sound like bees but have no sting – yet hoverflies remain ...

Meet Sirenobethylus charybdis, a wasp that the team half-jokingly called a ‘Cretaceous flytrap’ for its rear being shaped like the fly-gobbling plant. ‘Nothing similar is known from any other insect,’ ...