You may have noticed wasp-like insects flying around outside your home. These may be cicada-killer wasps. These Cicadas are fairly common, native to our area, and are North America's largest wasp.

And this effort ruined their flight stability, producing the kind of weird, jagged flying that keeps them trapped around a light source. The insects would sometimes orbit the light, maintaining a ...

Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights ... course toward a light if they happen to be passing by due to a strange innate biological response. Stock image of mayflies swarming ...

The Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District said it received many calls from local residents reporting swarms of “various flying insects” that were mistaken as mosquitoes. “We’re ...

Strange habits: When threatened, shieldbugs can excrete a foul-smelling liquid that also gives them the name stink bugs. Its other common name is the sloe bug, and it sips sap from blackthorn and ...

“Weird and Wonderful Wasps,” including the ... and the smallest known flying insect, only 0.15mm. All known fairy wasps are parasitoids of the eggs of other insects. A family arts-and-crafts ...

Flying insects turn their tops toward the light source ... The team found that the artificial situations could cause additional strange behaviors. What appears to the untrained eye as the flocking ...