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 ...

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

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 ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...