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 ...

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 ...

Q: I saw this interesting critter sitting on my window screen and it looks like a giant, oddly-shaped bee. Is it good to have around the garden? A: Yes. This is a robber fly, and they come in a range ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meet Dr. Torsten Dikow, an entomologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In this episode of Smithsonian Science How, learn how predatory assassin flies are able to catch other ...

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