In the mountains of the Anti-Atlas in Morocco, a fly larva has developed a camouflage strategy that is as surprising as it is effective. Thanks to a "mask" resembling a termite head on its ...

Hawaii’s male crickets can’t hide from their buzzing boogeymen for long. In just a handful of years, cricket-killing parasitic flies have evolved hearing that’s more sensitive to their prey ...

This key, developed by Zoe Adams, Lisa Smith and Martin Hall, is a work in progress and will be updated on a regular basis to include more taxa and characters. Currently it will identify to species ...

Bee-flies look adorable. Seeing the dark-edged bee-fly hover in mid-air, some people describe it as a tiny, fluffy, flying narwhale. It has a hairy little body and face, and a very long, straw-like ...

Female Aedes aegypti commonly lay eggs on the inner walls of artificial containers. When the containers fill with water, mosquito larvae hatch from the eggs. After developing through four larval ...

An curved arrow pointing right. At an insect farm in Kenya, fly larvae are being used to combat food waste. It's part of the InsectiPro farm's mission to chip away at the 1,900 tons of organic ...