This article was originally featured on The Conversation. April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the ...

Q: I saw this interesting critter sitting on my window screen and it looks like a giant, oddly-shaped bee. Is it good to have around the garden? A: Yes. This is a robber fly, and they come in a range ...

April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the escape from my first brutal Minnesota winter. I was ...

(WJW) – There is a fly in Ohio that experts are buzzing about. The large fly that commonly measures over 1 1/4” long is sometimes called a giant robber fly, an assassin, or even a cannibal fly, and ...

Periodical cicadas (genus Magicicada) exhibit one of nature’s most extraordinary life‐history strategies, emerging en masse every 13 or 17 years. Their predictable, synchronous emergences have ...