Adrian Smith, the Head of the Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab at North Carolina’s Museum of Natural Sciences, shows us that unique aesthetic in a new slow-mo video of flying insects.

Bugs in March in North Carolina Midges. A midge is a small, delicate and often fragile flying insect that belongs to the order diptera, which is a family of insects commonly referred to as true flies.

Bugs in March in North Carolina Midges. A midge is a small, delicate and often fragile flying insect that belongs to the order diptera, which is a family of insects commonly referred to as true flies.

The further south you go, the bigger the bugs. Heat has a dramatic effect on the growth rate of some species, and North ...

WILKES COUNTY, N.C. — An event in the insect world that happens only once every 17 years is expected in parts of the North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia this spring.

“Insects have a navigational problem,” said Tyson Hedrick, a biologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was not involved in the research.