Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect nearby is often to swat at it, but not every bug is a foe. Some are friends and worth a second look. Consider the hover fly, a tiny but mighty ...

Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

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

A tiny syrphid fly, also known as a hover fly, rest on a leaf in Bremerton, Washington, in this photo from 2020. Which flying insects will sting? Once again, hoverflies can't sting.

Learn how a new study uses 3D printing to better understand some of insect evolution’s greatest illusions.

Scientists used 3D-printed insect models to study how disguises help harmless species fool predators and survive in the wild.

So providing nesting habitat like hoverfly lagoons for these insects could increase their abundance in urban areas, ensuring more effective pollination and better strawberry harvests in the future.

News; UK News; Insects; Major UK insect invasion FINALLY explained by scientists - with warning of more to come Cornwall was plagued by thousands and thousands of hoverflies earlier this year and ...