Unlike most bugs, snow flies thrive in the cold—thanks to a baffling mix of genetic kinks that scientists never expected to ...

In a new study, Northwestern University scientists explored how snow flies—small, wingless insects that crawl across snow to ...

A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...

Snow flies survive freezing using antifreeze proteins and internal heat, showing how life adapts to extreme cold conditions.

What really moves Dickinson is the insects' flying proficiency. The first organisms to evolve flight, insects still represent the most sophisticated aerial machine on the planet, he says. Flies, in ...

Put the fly swatter down.

While humans feature a sophisticated sense of smell, insects have a much more basic olfactory system. Yet they depend upon smell to survive. Scientists have figured out how fruit flies use a simple ...

We don’t always have the answers, but we have some people on speed dial who do — which is why we present to you our series FYI where we have experts explain if lip balm is actually bad, how often ...

The hinge enables insects to control their wing movements, but how it works is hard to study. Multidisciplinary research, using imaging and machine-learning methods, now sheds light on the mechanism ...

Drain flies are evasive and annoying, but they’re not impossible to banish. Next time you suspect a drain fly infestation, try taking these steps to get rid of existing pests and prevent the problem ...

Fruit flies are attracted to ripe, rotting, or fermenting produce and can breed in moist areas like drains. Homemade traps using apple cider vinegar, overripe fruit, wine, or beer can effectively ...