Bees and butterflies might be the best-known pollinators, but they aren’t the only ones. Bats, birds, beetles, wasps and flies play an important role, too. Rae Olsson, a postdoctoral research ...

PULLMAN, Wash. - A tiny bee imposter, the syrphid fly, may be a big help to some gardens and farms, new research from Washington State University shows. An observational study in Western Washington ...

Notice the large eyes that meet at the top of the head and wings that stand out from the body on this bee fly on a ninebark blossom. Flies mimicking bees have huge eyes that meet at the top of the ...

A “bee fly” is a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bee’s hard work. A “bee fly” looks a bit like a bee, but it’s a freeloader that takes advantage of a bindweed turret bee’s hard ...

When a bumble bee emerges from torpor, it repeatedly rubs its arms over its head and flexes its abdomen. It’s a half-stretch, half-dance move that warms the bee up and out of the state of decreased ...

The flower in my picture here is commonly called an Easter daffodil. The insect on the daffodil is often mistaken for a bee. It also has some of the characteristics of the larger hummingbird clearwing ...

An observational study found that out of more than 2,400 pollinator visits to flowers at urban and rural farms in in Western Washington about 35% of were made by flies -- most of which were the ...