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 ...

Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to help direct them when flying south for the winter, new research shows. Findings show the insects keep the sun on their left in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

My casual mention last week of flying swifts feeding on aphids could have surprised readers who know these tiny insects only as sap-sucking garden pests. But aphids are just one group of insects that ...

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 ...

Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows. The insects keep the sun on their left in the morning, then gradually ...

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 ...