Plus, how to identify ground wasp nests and prevent future infestations. If you’ve ever been stung by a wasp, you know it’s unpleasant. Although ground wasps may be less aggressive than some ...

"Many wasp nests are created in the ground and will also have been severely impacted by the further flooding across the country in spring and early summer," said a spokesperson for the charity.

Sand quarries, with their sunlit slopes and bare soils, have emerged as unlikely sanctuaries for rare pollinators.

They build nests in the ground, logs or building walls or attics. Their stings are painful, but the wasps are usually not aggressive except when disturbed at the nest. German wasps (Vespula ...

As the weather heats up bee and wasp queens emerge from hibernation in search of a place to start their nests.

Most people won't be surprised that bumble bees and ground-nesting wasp colonies have queens. What is surprising, though, is that those big bees and wasps we see in the spring are the queens—not ...