Nature is full of impostors, and many of them are found in the insect world. Certain species, such as the bee fly or the ant ...

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For the first time ever, an international study led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE), a joint centre of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (the Spanish National ...

Flies are attracted to our pungent "cloud of effervescence," experts say. There's hardly a more irritating noise than the ...

As we enter Summer, Minnesotans might spot our state bird (the loon), state fish (the walleye) or state flower (the pink lady slipper). Now, we can take notice of the newest addition in the state ...

The clouds can tell you a lot about the weather you will experience on a given day. Many Iowans woke up to seeing these ...

Knowing what to look for can help you identify a tick bite ... 60% to 70% of people with the disease would develop a rash like this, more recent evidence suggests that number may actually be ...

By evolving to be larger and more flower-like, female mantises increase their chances to catch insect prey. It's called aggressive mimicry. They don't look like one flower. Research shows that their ...

We say hard workers are “busy as a bee,” but in a recent study, honey bees seemed more like employees in an office ... “In field biology, we usually just look at things with our eyes ...

A Texas Standard listener wanted to know more about hover flies – also sometimes called flower flies or syrphid flies because they’re in the family Syrphidae – particularly why they buzz like a bee.

A coyote appeared to be doing backflips in the snow, but a closer look reveals its predicament, deputies said. Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on X, formerly known as Twitter A coyote appeared ...