What Are Bee Flies? “What is this strange insect on my plumbago? Is it a pollinator?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Caitlin Buelow of Vail, Arizona. Birds & Blooms experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, ...

Among the flower flies are more recognizable, and sometimes abundant, bees and wasps. It can be entertaining to watch them ...

Bees and butterflies might be the best-known pollinators, but they aren’t the only ones. Bats, birds, beetles, wasps and flies play an important role, too. Rae Olsson, a postdoctoral research ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - A tiny bee imposter, the syrphid fly, may be a big help to some gardens and farms, new research from Washington State University shows. An observational study in Western Washington ...

Let’s have a little sympathy for the native mason bees that have been getting more and more popular with backyard gardeners. A nasty predator called the Houdini fly, which arrived from Europe a few ...