Good bugs pollinate our food crops, enrich and fertilize the soil, eat our garbage and provide food for wildlife.

In a new study published and featured in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, researchers have discovered that ...

The United States plans to bring back a somewhat shocking, but very effective, campaign to fight a flesh-eating parasitic fly that's been sighted in Mexico. The plan: Breed millions of ...

Meanwhile, the USDA has rolled out plans for an $8.5 million New World screwworm (NWS) facility in Texas and is exploring ...

Tennessee is home to over a thousand insects, but a few are quite sizable. Discover the biggest insects that live in the ...

If you're not already a fan of insects you will be after reading Lisa Clancy's captivating collection of portrait-style ...

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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.

Plasma membranes from insect midgut cells are separated into apical and basolateral domains. The apical domain is usually modified into microvilli with a molecular structure similar to other animals.

That inch-long, gangly-legged insect that sneaks into your house and bounces around the walls and ceiling is a crane fly, and despite rumors to the contrary, it is neither a predator of mosquitoes nor ...

Around 1,475 species of crane flies are known in India, but they are largely understudied. Often mistaken to be mosquitoes, wasps or other predatory insects, crane flies only feed on nectar or water.

Crane flies only eat in larvae form, when they consume decomposing vegetation and plant roots. This makes them very important decomposers that keep the ecosystem in balance. Christopher Brothers, a ...