The Diptera ('true flies' or 'two-winged flies') constitute one of the largest orders of insects, with more than 160,000 species known worldwide and at least as many more still awaiting discovery.

Although Lucy Cooke 'genuinely loves stick insects more than pandas', she confesses she isn't keen on flies. Brave, when you're talking to our Senior Curator of Diptera Dr Erica McAlister, whose ...

The Florida Entomologist Vol. 85, No. 1, Mar., 2002 Effects of Post-Teneral Nutrition on Rep... To realize their reproductive potential, male Mediterranean fruit flies must run a gauntlet of ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495920 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495920 Larvae of phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon have the unusual habit of decapitating fire ...

Flies are big-time pollinators which have never got the credit they deserve for this service ...

The order Diptera classifies insects that have one pair of wings, according to Smithsonian. Over 110,000 fly species have been described, but there may be more buzzing about. Flies can be a ...

About 90% of flowering plants rely on animals to transfer their pollen and optimise reproduction, making pollination one of nature's most important ...