Super Fly: The Unexpected Lives Of The World's Most Successful Insects

For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our common  reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera  in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste disposers, predators, and food source, and reintroduces us to familiar foes like the mosquito and acquaints us with their lesser-known cousins such as ant decapitators, robber flies, maggots that help solve murders and clean infected wounds, and the midges that serve as the sole pollinators of the cacao tree. No matter your outlook on our tiny buzzing neighbors, Super Fly will forever change the way you look at flies.