Mosquitoes and crane flies are often confused for one another because they look similar at first glance, and they live in ...

Manual of Afrotropical Diptera Sparring male cactus flies, Chaetonerius alluaudi (Giglio-Tos) (Neriidae) from Mauritius (© S.A. Marshall) The Diptera ('true flies' or 'two-winged flies') constitute ...

The US government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but ...