Being outside in Indiana this time of year is usually fine — unless you're swatting away buzzing insects. "Because the corn is mature right now, you're going to find these (hover) flies," said Megan ...

There are four guarantees for summertime in Indiana: Heat, humidity, sweat and hoverflies. The first three are easy to explain. Here's a look at the fourth. You may also know hoverflies by another ...

This article was originally published in The Conversation. Read the original article. In the summer of 2011, panic gripped a small community in Gatineau, Quebec. Hundreds of small, striped insects ...

It takes Mandela Fernández-Grandon 15 minutes to train a hoverfly, a harmless wasp look-alike. The entomologist at the University of Greenwich, UK, immobilises each tiny insect in a cocoon-like holder ...

Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows. Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to ...

Hoverflies that hibernated as adults are beginning to emerge on warm sunny days to feed. Marmalade has a distinctive orange-yellow colour and it comes in a number of varieties to suit individual ...

Hoverfly larvae are small, tapered maggots that crawl over foliage and help kill insect pests. Black-and-yellow-striped adults resemble yellow jackets but are harmless to humans. This article is part ...

Migratory hoverflies are 'key' to pollination and controlling crop pests amid the decline of many other insect species, new research shows. Migratory hoverflies are "key" to pollination and ...

Name an animal that migrates. You might think of the long migrations of humpback whales crossing the Pacific Ocean or flocks of geese flying noisily overhead. But, did you know that huge numbers of ...

Migratory hoverflies are "key" to pollination and controlling crop pests amid the decline of many other insect species, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists studied the movements of ...