A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

Bugs aren’t the most pleasant creatures on earth—they bite, sting, or cause an itch. But someone has to study them. Dr. Megan ...

Flying ants are essentially harmless, but having a colony of them swarming around your home is annoying. Amazon has a very ...

Around 100 trillion insects fly in the skies above the USA on a summer's day, according to estimates by researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...

Summer is here and so are all the insects and bugs that plague us and our homes during the hottest times of the year.

A fly is going about its day, buzzing here, buzzing there—but then, it starts behaving weirdly. Its movements become sluggish; its abdomen swells. Its body sprouts white fuzz. Around sunset, there’s a ...

Using two species of flies from different climates -- one from the cool, high-altitude forests of Northern California, the other hailing from the hot, dry deserts of the Southwest -- scientists ...