Whoops! You left the door open, and one of the world’s least favorite flying guests just zipped inside: the house fly. Flies are everywhere, buzzing around your food, waste, and everything in between.

Flies carrying disease-causing microbes will likely contaminate the food they touch, but different factors determine whether ...

A blowfly on lavender flowers. Flies are the unsung heroes of pollination. They visit flowers to stoke up on energy-rich nectar and protein-rich pollen and transport pollen from flower to flower in ...

Christine Picard receives funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the National Institute of Justice, and the US Department of Defense. How is it that a fly ...