Nightmares aside, when most people hear the word wasp, they think of the problematic and invasive European wasp. But did you know there are more than 10,000 species of native wasps in Australia – wasp ...

Bees pollinate crops and native plants, for starters, and wasps play a part in pest control by eating other insects. Dr Latty urges readers to leave the insects be, if at all possible.

Australian native paper wasps — that form colonies in inverted cone shaped nests, commonly under tree branches and house eaves — are among the wasp species bugging residents.

In cities, a little native greenery can go a long way. Australian scientists found that, after adding native shrubs to a planting in Melbourne, the number of insect species at the site increased ...

After a devastating bushfire, efforts to help nature recover typically focus on vertebrates and plants . Yet extreme fires can threaten insects ...

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