"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Winter brings cozy evenings, crackling fires, and the promise of snow-covered landscapes. But it can also ...

Pests are surging this October. If giant rats weren’t enough, something else is looking to hibernate in your home: cluster flies. You might ask: what’s so bad about some flies? If the name didn’t give ...

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If a home or other building seems to have been invaded by hundreds of flies this fall, these are likely cluster flies. While a nuisance, they do not cause any damage or harm people or pets and they do ...

Among the insects abuzz at the end of Alaska's unusually warm winter is a fly previously undocumented in Alaska --Pollenia, commonly known as the cluster fly. Since mid-February, cluster flies have ...

DEAR JOAN: About two days ago I had two black flies in my kitchen, but they didn’t look like ordinary house flies. They were jet black, sort of fat looking and rather sluggish. I ended up killing ...

Cluster flies spend winter under the bark of dead or dying trees and in south-facing crevices of man-made structures. As spring’s warm sunny days emerge, so do cluster flies. They crawl out of wall ...