A student in Italy did an experiment with wasps and colored paper, which resulted in the insects building rainbow nests. This is how they do it. Italian biological science student Mattia Menchetti ...

The nest is likely to have been built by many wasps over several years ... create a sort of laminate of the wood pulp, a bit like paper, that dries and solidifies. This process is repeated ...

A study of the correlation between environmental variables such as latitude and body size in paper wasps (genus Polistes) by a group of Brazilian researchers concludes that the nearer the habitat ...

Paper wasps are slender, social wasps, typically with reddish-brown or black bodies and yellow markings. These social wasps build open, umbrella-shaped nests made from a paper-like material, often ...

Since they started building the nests earlier, he said, the queens will be able to reproduce more workers. Queen wasps reproduce until the end of the summer. Hahn said early eradication of wasp nests ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony. Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to ...

A study of the correlation between environmental variables such as latitude and body size in paper wasps (genus Polistes) by a group of Brazilian researchers concludes that the nearer the habitat ...