While mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies get lots of respect and even reverence from sportsmen, the house fly is the annoying object of everyone’s reflexive wrath. In the heat of summer, they’re ...

Many flies are plagued by parasitic wasps, which lay their eggs in fly larvae, turning them into surrogate wombs for wasp larvae. One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by ...

A group of researchers has developed a novel way to view the world through the eyes of a common fly and partially decode the insect's reactions to changes in the world around it. The research ...