Being outside in Indiana this time of year is usually fine — unless you're swatting away buzzing insects. "Because the corn is mature right now, you're going to find these (hover) flies," said Megan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garden full of flowers for beneficial insects - Marina Lohrbach/Getty Images Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 3, 2023) New research is highlighting the best flowers to plant in order to attract syrphid flies (also known as hover flies, or flower flies), an important pollinator and, in ...

If you live in the Miami Valley and have been outdoors lately, chances are you have been swatting hover or syrphid flies. They are not the same as sweat bees. In 2018, as I was preparing to drive to a ...

This summer, Bill and I have been inundated with little fast moving, yellow-tinged flies that people have for years called “sweat bees.” Well, this article sets the record straight. Hover flies ...

Survey the insects orbiting a globe of milkweed blossoms or the delicate blooms of a chokeberry, and you might spy an apparent chimera. It looks a bit like a bee, perhaps a tad like a wasp, and it ...

Last summer, I watched bee-looking creatures flying in zigzag formation, each with a separate flight plan. Are those bumblebees? Wasps? Nope, they were hoverflies, also called syrphid flies, drone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Being outside in Indiana this time of year is usually fine — unless you're swatting away buzzing insects. "Because the corn is ...