Q: I keep seeing small black flying bugs in my house but they’re not fruit flies. What type of bug could they be, and how do I get rid of them? A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in ...

SAN ANTONIO — Are you noticing a lot of bugs that look like giant mosquitos flying around outside your home? These insects look like colossal mosquitos combined with daddy longlegs, but they're not ...

Entomologist Torsten Dikow, a leading expert on assassin flies, is working to connect a global community of researchers through the democratization of insect science Emma Saaty Torsten Dikow overlooks ...

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Disease-carrying insects are no longer confined to the tropics or to a short summer season. From mosquitoes and ticks to the so-called kissing bug, a growing body of research shows that these vectors ...

Through pollination and feeding on all parts of plants, insects influence which plants thrive, which struggle, and even ...

A crane fly, insect family Tipulidae, is a large fly with long, slender legs that looks like a giant mosquito. They’re sometimes called mosquito hawks or skeeter eaters because they’re said to eat ...