To many, they’re just nuisances, but houseflies, fruit flies and other maligned flying insects are major migratory players ...

Find out when and why ants grow wings and swarm. Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and ...

New research uncovers the surprising role of plant scents in insect diets and evolution especially butterflies and moths.

The present volume contains descriptions of 182 species of two-winged insects, belonging to various families from the Tipulidæ to the Dolichopodidæ) and especially of numerous forms of Asilidæ ...

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The oldest insect fossil—a mandible (or jaw) found in Scotland—is between 408 and 438 million years old. The oldest winged fossil dates back 330 million years ago, suggesting that insects were ...

They found that during the day there were lots more plant smells, which meant that the winged insects had a greater variety to choose from and could pick their favourites, compared to at night ...