Fruit flies are often a good first guess when you see tiny black bugs flying around your house, but if the little pests are more interested in your plants, windows, and glowing electronics than ...

But then there are common house bugs you might be unsure ... standard house fly, cluster flies are often larger, about ⅓ inch long. They are dull-gray and black and have golden-yellow hairs ...

Buzzing insects may be seen as pests -- but globally, hundreds of fly species migrate over long distances, with major benefits for people and nature, new research shows.

As Dr Erica McAlister, our Senior Curator of Diptera, puts it in her book The Secret Life of Flies, 'if it weren't for these little organic munchers we would be knee-high in dead bodies'. In fact ...