I photographed this fly as it sat on my finger. It is a member of a species of flies called tachinid flies. There are countless numbers of tachinid flies throughout most of the world. In North America ...

The tachinids are flies belonging to a family known scientifically as Tachinidae, which consists of over 8,200 species. About 1,600 of these are found in the Palearctic region, which is the faunistic ...

I find myself ineluctably drawn to the flowers of thistles and milkweeds. The flowers are large, bright, and showy, but more than that they usually attract a host of insects, including butterflies, ...

FABRE has given a graphic account of the patient watch of this parasitic cuckoo-fly at the mouth of the burrow of a species of Bembex, and of its cunning in seizing the moment when the “wasp” is half ...

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