A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not because ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and other ...

Rather than revealing a nationwide collapse, the results show that overall numbers of day-flying insects in the air remained broadly stable between 2012 and 2021. That stability, however, masks sharp ...

As the weather cools, we’re not the only ones heading indoors. When temperatures drop, flying insects like fruit flies, gnats ...