Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...

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A: The short answer is that these small black bugs in the house that aren’t fruit flies could be a number of different types of insects, from gnats to ants to flies. While gnat bugs are technically a ...