If tiny winged bugs have you constantly reaching for the flyswatter, you may be dealing with a bothersome fly infestation in your home. The question is, what kind of flies are they? Drain flies (also ...

According to Torsten Dikow, curator in the entomology department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, assassin flies are “aggressive, visual predators that perch on vegetation and ...

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 ...

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 ...

To many, they’re just nuisances, but houseflies, fruit flies and other maligned flying insects are major migratory players that deserve further study, according to new research that calls them a ...

Researchers announced over 70 new species in a single year, including bizarre insects, ancient dinosaurs, rare mammals, and deep-river fish. Many were found not in the wild, but in museum collections, ...

Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, particularly on islands. Most insects can fly. Yet scores of species have lost that extraordinary ability, ...

Until recently Prosoeca peringueyi (pictured below), an otherworldly little creature with a needlelike tongue almost twice the length of its body, was thought to play a vital role in the reproduction ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. About 95% of insect species worldwide can fly. The question of what ...