Common species of biting flies in South Carolina are abundant in the fall and can put a damper on your beach day. What’s ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison sequenced microbial communities from these biting flies at two connected ...

As the weather warms up the UK is often swarmed with reports of biting horseflies. A Museum fly expert explains what is going on. Often large, persistent and painful, a bite from a horsefly is an ...

Although crane flies look like giant mosquitoes, you can ease your mind knowing that they don’t bite. Crane flies generally do not eat once they’re adults, but they do drink – and this labrum, or ...

Adults are sometimes known as midges or biting midges, and, especially in the Americas, as ‘no-see-ums’. In Australia and some other countries they are often called sand flies, but this name is ...

How can you tell if a bite or sting is serious? According to Pramod Kelkar, MD, an allergist and immunologist in Maple Grove, Minn., reactions to insect bites fall into three categories ...

The horse fly bite hurts a lot. After mating and feeding on blood, the female horseflies find a damp area to lay their eggs. Common places for horseflies to lay their eggs include: The horsefly ...

Scotland's non-biting midges Scotland 'breaks temperature ... of clegs this summer because no monitoring was done of the flies, and there was little other data available on them.