Boyle Heights residents say flies, rodents and the stench from rotting food remain a problem weeks after the Lineage ...

Deep-diving insect larvae are challenging a long-held idea about why there are almost no insects in the ocean, thanks to sturdy air sacs. In Lake Malawi in East Africa, billions of lake fly larvae ...

Insects are everywhere: from fruit flies to ants to bees to cockroaches, they are seemingly inescapable. The paper eliminates a popular theory as to why insects can’t live in oceans—namely that ...

Like it or not, insects are everywhere, including places where you may not want them to be. Yet there is one environment that ...

When fish are tuned into bugs, too aggressive of a chug can scare them faster than attract them, especially in clear water. You want to nudge your popper ever so gently, just enough to make that ...

Screwworms are back and spreading in Texas. The pests were successfully eradicated from the United States in 1966. How? Using the sterile insect technique whereby 20 billion irradiated screwworm flies ...

Tornyol is a small autonomous drone system designed to detect mosquitoes by their wingbeat and intercept them during flight.

At a U.S.-funded facility in Panama, scientists are preparing to launch the first outdoor tests of genetically modified screwworm flies, a milestone in efforts to develop a more effective weapon ...

Summary: Researchers revealed that fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster) navigate odor plumes using a sophisticated directional memory system rather than basic sensory reflexes. Using a ...

In the middle of a riffle on the Madison River, Jackson Birrell is sprawled across river rocks, pushing all his weight on a metal bucket. He’s looking for bugs.

Readers take issue with a former answer to this question, arguing for the different behaviour of wasps and flies – and for a ...

When a fruit fly catches a whiff of a ripe peach, it quickly heads toward it. Time after time, it finds the fruit—even from ...