Hoverflies can carry pollen over greater distances than bees and pollinate many plants that grow in your garden or yard. Look ...

Honeybees face numerous enemies throughout their relatively short lives. Pesticides, starvation, and parasites are three ...

The team has described the morphological adaptations of this species of blow fly. In particular, the larvae of this calliphorid have developed a unique disguise to help them infiltrate termite mounds.

But when the fly does succeed, the fly’s egg hatches into a larva that digs tiny hooks into the bee larva. As the bee eats the pollen and grows, the fly larva sucks it dry.

Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

Female bee flies spray their eggs “like a machine gun” around the nests of ground-dwelling bees, McAlister said. The larvae then hatch, worm their way into the nest, and eat the bee larvae.

Roughly 300,000 robot hives are in use across the U.S., scattered across fields of almond, canola, pistachios and other crops ...

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

The larvae of most bee fly species lay their eggs in or on other insects, particularly wasps and solitary bees. The larvae then feed on the insect host, usually killing it.

As they collect it for their larvae, they unintentionally distribute it from flower to flower. One leafcutter bee can pollinate 20 times as many flowers as a honey bee!

The fly larvae — we call them maggots — hatch and feed on the pollen,” Zack said. “So what the maggots do is they destroy all the food for the immature mason bee.

How do you know if it's a hoverfly or something else? While at first glance these flying insects (hoverfly, sweat bee and yellow jacket) may look alike, there are easy ways to determine which is ...