and provide some baseline data for an annual Big Wasp Survey over the coming years. As Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL) says: "The black and yellow wasps that bother us at picnics are social wasps and we ...
German wasps (Vespula germanica) are very similar in appearance to the yellow-jacket, though very slightly bigger. Hornets build large nests of a paper-like material made from chewed wood mixed ...
The honeydew on Christmas Island is mostly produced by the yellow lac scale. The Malaysian micro-wasp is a known predator that specifically targets the yellow lac scale. Now, biocontrol is not new ...