The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and drop them from airplanes over Mexico and even southern Texas.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced plans to drop millions of flies over Texas and Mexico, in an effort to ...

The RSPB is calling on households to keep an eye out for crows in their gardens this summer, as the population of carrion ...

During this time as larvae, crane flies are important for recycling and decomposition — they eat leaves, plants and small bits of organic material in the soil or water bodies where they live.

Leatherjackets, the destructive larvae of crane flies, are wreaking havoc across the country when it comes to the lawn. By Sophie Harris, Senior Audience Writer, Spare Time ...

"Lawn grubs, for example, might be the larvae of Japanese beetles, June bugs, Southern masked chafer, or Crane fly larvae," Harlow-Ellis says. Lawn grubs are white and C-shaped, about 1/2-inch long.

A crane fly lands on an Owl's Clover (Orthocarpus densiflorus), April 25, 2023 at Carrizo Plain National Monument during the "Superbloom" wildflower explosion, near Santa Margarita, California.

Dr Henry Disney, from Cambridge University, said: "The main emergence of crane flies usually coincides with the start of the soccer season. "If conditions are suitably wet when larvae are growing they ...

Fragile and fluttering, crane flies are also surprisingly ephemeral. "These dipterans live a short adult life of one to two weeks with the sole goal of mating and laying eggs," Brandi Keller, a ...

What are leatherjackets? Leatherjackets are the grubs or larvae of crane-flies (Tipula species) better known by their common name, daddylong-legs. They have long thin legs, narrow bodies and slender ...