They are among the world’s least-cuddly creatures — and about a thousand of them are calling an Ashland Park home. They are wasps. “About a week ago we had a couple show up and it’s kind of exploded ...

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Curious where bees and wasps go in winter? Learn how these buzzing insects survive the cold months and what happens to hives and nests until spring.

Honeybees are among the most common types of bee species that can be found in North America, and one of their colonies can house up to 80,000 bees. It’s estimated that the health and survival of 35% ...

Wasps can be a deceptively tricky pest to deal with. While they can be great pollinators for the garden, if you’re dealing with a wasp infestation outdoors or indoors, you may be looking for ways to ...

Has your garden been swarmed by an unusually high number of wasps this summer? You may not be alone. Seirian Sumner, professor of behavioural ecology at UCL, said the summer heat and dry conditions in ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

A society’s success can hinge on its head honcho. That’s true even for insects under the rule of a queen. One way to judge the success of social insects such as paper wasps is by the size of their ...

When you think of wasps, you probably think about trying to enjoy food or drink outside on a warm fall day and being bothered by yellowjackets. Maybe you think of getting stung. These experiences are ...

It's summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea—and wasps. This is a worker wasp. She is looking for food to feed to her sibling larvae in her mother's papery looking nest. Is she ...

COASTAL BEND — The wasps are from Mexico, the researchers from the United Kingdom, and the focus of both was a nest the size of a bassinet in South Texas. Biologists with the London Zoo arrived last ...