A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

Many insects determine their altitude by measuring how quickly the ground is passing beneath them, but __Drosophila__ adopts a separate technique -- it avoids crashing by flying at the same height as ...

If you spend much time around fly anglers who pursue trout, you’ll soon be subjected to detailed entomology lessons. Fly anglers love studying aquatic insects because imitating those bugs is how they ...

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series of ...

Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new... 'Like moths to a flame'? Here's what's going on with ...