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As summer season begins, millions of biting flies are waiting to welcome visitors to northern Michigan. How to keep them away ...

The goal is to give West Michigan bats a safe location to nest near resources they need, so they’re out of harm’s way and ...

In Michigan, peak black fly season begins around ... Black flies are a small, flying insect that bite animals including humans to suck their blood. They are sometimes referred to as “buffalo ...

Bats are the only flying mammal species in the world. These insectivores feed on spongy moth, tent caterpillars, fruit worms ...

The Original Mackinac Island Butterfly House & Insect World, Michigan's first butterfly house ... colorful butterflies from hundreds of species flying about as music plays. The facility does ...

Every spring, adult midge flies emerge by the Milwaukee lakefront in giant swarms to mate, procreate and lay their eggs in ...

Mackinac Island features one of the nation's top butterfly gardens, per the USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. Here's what to know.

Here's when midges will disappear again for the year and what else to know about the insects. Midges are tiny, non-biting flies that emerge near water bodies, including Lake Michigan. They have ...

Preserving a species is painstaking, time-consuming work. Andres Ortega, aquatic resources supervisor with the Forest ...

In today’s Health Alert, the calendar says it’s still spring, but Michigan residents need to be on the lookout for those ...

A few years ago, flamingos arrived along the Lake Michigan shoreline ... and there are spring birds that are flying in on migration to take advantage of those insect populations," said Walz.