While adult bee-flies are adorable, a young bee-fly isn’t quite as endearing. The larva is a parasitoid, meaning it’s a parasite that will end up killing its host. Many bee-fly species are parasites ...

Bees are usually the first insects to come to mind when people think of pollinators. But many other insects—including beetles, flies, moths and butterflies—also visit flowers to feed on nectar ...

A “bee fly” looks a bit like a bee, but it’s a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bee’s hard work. The bees dig underground nests and fill them with pollen they collect ...

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate ...

Bees and other insects (and birds!) are important pollinators in our ecosystem. Here's why.

But it's not only bumble bees getting slowly eaten alive. Bee flies eat the eggs of other insects, like wasps and grasshoppers. So if you happen to be missing any of these insects in your garden ...

Flies play a crucial role as pollinators, second only to bees in terms of the volume of crops and habitat they pollinate, López-Uribe explained.

The fly lays its eggs right by where a mom mason bee has laid her eggs. To nurture her young bees when they hatch, she also has left pollen and nectar for them.

However, mason bees don’t recognize Houdini flies as a threat because the bees didn’t evolve alongside these flies from another continent. Stay informed on what is happening in Clark County ...