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 ...

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.

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 ...

Beescape is a free, web-based resource that compiles data from several sources to assess bee habitats and risks anywhere in ...

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 ...