Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect nearby is often to swat at it, but not every bug is a foe. Some are friends and worth a second look. Consider the hover fly, a tiny but mighty bee ...
Being outside in Indiana this time of year is usually fine — unless you're swatting away buzzing insects. "Because the corn is mature right now, you're going to find these (hover) flies," said Megan ...
The surefire way to know whether it’s a sweat bee or a corn fly buzzing around is if it stings. The halictid bee stings, but the corn fly, also called a hover fly, does not. “They’re mimics of bees, ...
Hover flies have one set of wings and no stinger. If you've been outside lately, chances are you've seen them — small flying insects that resemble sweat bees. In fact, you may have actually called ...
SALEM, Ore. (KPTV) - FOX 12′s Stephanie Kralevich meets up with Karah Kuh of Travel Salem for a tour of Flying Bee Ranch. Part honey tasting room, part Oregon grown giftshop, part bee-keeping educator ...
Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...
The parasitic roundworm Steinernema carpocapsae, which live in soil, are already known to leap some 25 times their body ...