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 ...

New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes ...

Researchers put a sensor at the entrance of beehives to register each time the pollinators entered or exited, and how long ...

Flies play a crucial role as pollinators, second only to bees in terms of the volume of crops and habitat they pollinate, López-Uribe explained. Flies are especially important for overall health ...

New research into the effects of manmade chemicals on insects has revealed that common pesticides can dramatically affect the brains of flies and bees. The chemicals throw the insects out of sync ...

According to a new study, flies may be more sensitive to climate change than bees. In warming experiments, researchers found bees could tolerate temperatures about 2.3 degrees Celsius higher than ...

Scientists have used tracking devices to start solving the mystery of how far bees travel from the hive in search of pollen.

In a study recently published in the Journal of Melittology, an international team of researchers looked at the heat tolerance for a variety of species of bees and flies in tropical and subtropical ...

There are more species of fly in the UK than there are mammals on the planet,' states Erica. Among these are beauties like Bombylius bee-flies, picture-winged flies and the hornet hoverfly (the UK's ...