This article was originally featured on The Conversation. April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the ...

April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the escape from my first brutal Minnesota winter. I was ...

Robber flies are aerodynamic acrobats, able to spot their prey, dodge around obstacles, and capture smaller insects at high speeds in midflight. Scientists have taken a closer look at how robber flies ...

While many flies are content to land on pieces of fruit or carrion, robber flies (Asilidae) engage in mortal combat. Intercepting smaller insects on the wing, robber flies dine on anything they can ...

There is a fly in Ohio that experts are buzzing about. The large fly that commonly measures over 1 1/4” long is sometimes called a giant robber fly, an assassin, or even a cannibal fly, and once you ...

For those of us who occasionally trip over a curb or bump into a door frame, it’s hard to imagine an organism with a brain smaller than the period at the end of this sentence deftly maneuvering around ...

When describing a fly, many people think of the ubiquitous house fly (Musca domestica); whereas, some biologists might envision the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Both are good examples of ...

Siddhant Pusdekar does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Siddhant Pusdekar, University of Minnesota (THE CONVERSATION) April in the Florida ...