After a cold winter, rising temps trigger the emergence of a perennial Lowcountry nuisances: the no-see-um or sand gnat.

What's that pest flitting around in your home? It could be a fly. The order Diptera classifies insects that have one pair of wings, according to Smithsonian. Over 110,000 fly species have been ...

The Diptera ('true flies' or 'two-winged flies') constitute one of the largest orders of insects, with more than 160,000 species known worldwide and at least as many more still awaiting discovery.

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature's most important ...

85, No. 1, Mar., 2002 Effects of Post-Teneral Nutrition on Rep... To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of behavioral challenges during which they ...

Despite a less than stellar public image, flies deserve our admiration, respect and thanks, so Dr Erica McAlister sets out to convince bestselling author and broadcaster Lucy Cooke. Join them behind ...

Blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) both have a worldwide distribution. Flies have a holometabolous lifecycle; they have four distinct life stages.

P. peringueyi, which is 16–21 mm long, is one of at least a dozen long-tongued species of the Nemestrinidae family of true flies (Diptera) that are endemic to southern Africa. (In all other parts of ...

Reliable methods are needed for assessing sexual maturity in field-captured tephritid fruit flies. To provide such a tool for female Caribbean fruit flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), this study ...