Flies are aggravating pests in the garden that slip into your home. There are plants with odors that flies avoid. Learn more ...

Plum trees are small and bloom abundantly in spring. If you grow wild species, like the American or Chickasaw plum, you'll ...

The way bugs and birds flap their wings may look effortless, but the dynamics that keep them aloft are dizzyingly complex and ...

Small and fast‑flying, the holly blue is usually the first blue butterfly to be seen each year, appearing from late April and ...

Here's what to know about lovebug season in Florida and why some believe the myth that the University of Florida is to blame.

Step back 300 million years, to the dawn of the Permian period. Dinosaurs hadn’t even made an appearance yet, and birds were a very distant dream. But let’s be clear: the skies were far from empty.

Like so many flying insects, these essential pollinators are suffering because of habitat loss and the overuse of chemicals. Here’s how to give them a healthier, happier home The Guardian’s journalism ...

Three-hundred million years ago, the skies of the late Palaeozoic era were buzzing with giant insects. Meganeuropsis permiana, a predatory insect resembling a modern-day dragonfly, had a wingspan of ...

Three hundred million years ago, dragonfly-like creatures with wingspans stretching 70 centimeters patrolled the skies of a world nothing like our own. These griffinflies, as paleontologists call them ...

About 350 million years ago, dragonflies were roughly 27 inches (70 centimeters) wide. Scientific consensus is that high oxygen levels allowed these humongous fliers to exist, but a new study throws ...