Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garden full of flowers for beneficial insects - Marina Lohrbach/Getty Images Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect ...

When birds or insects fly, they displace air with their wings – that is how it works. Maybe sometime at night you have disturbed an owl and heard the flap of its large wings. This sound is a frequency ...

Scott Simon talks to Matt Shardlow of UK conservation group Buglife about the decline in flying invertebrates in the UK and how that could spell environmental disaster. Summertime is fast approaching.

Your first instinct when you spot a buzzing insect nearby is often to swat at it, but not every bug is a foe. Some are friends and worth a second look. Consider the hover fly, a tiny but mighty bee ...