Many have wished for those pesky flies to just disappear, but the truth of what their extinction would do to Earth's ...

What's that pest flitting around in your home? It could be a fly. The order Diptera classifies insects that have one pair of wings, according to Smithsonian. Over 110,000 fly species have been ...

The Diptera ('true flies' or 'two-winged flies') constitute one of the largest orders of insects, with more than 160,000 species known worldwide and at least as many more still awaiting discovery.

85, No. 1, Mar., 2002 Effects of Post-Teneral Nutrition on Rep... To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of behavioral challenges during which they ...

P. peringueyi, which is 16–21 mm long, is one of at least a dozen long-tongued species of the Nemestrinidae family of true flies (Diptera) that are endemic to southern Africa. (In all other parts of ...

Although Lucy Cooke 'genuinely loves stick insects more than pandas', she confesses she isn't keen on flies. Brave, when you're talking to our Senior Curator of Diptera Dr Erica McAlister, whose ...

Reliable methods are needed for assessing sexual maturity in field-captured tephritid fruit flies. To provide such a tool for female Caribbean fruit flies, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), this study ...