Most people won't be surprised that bumble bees and ground-nesting wasp colonies have queens. What is surprising, though, is ...

Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "Last summer I also spent time observing, photographing and filming social wasps in my ...

Most people won’t be surprised that bumble bees and ground-nesting wasp colonies have queens. What is surprising, though, is ...

have a poor reputation with the public A new study reveals that wasps are largely disliked by the public, whereas bees are highly appreciated. The researchers involved say that this view is unfair ...

What is surprising, though, is that those big bees and wasps we see in the spring are the queens—not the workers—building their nests all on their own. Bumble bees and yellowjacket wasps ...

Why do we hate wasps and love bees? Here's what to do if you're attacked by wasps Why is it so hard to swat a fly? Social wasp nests are constructed from wood fibres collected and then mixed with ...

Bees evolved from wasps and they still look a lot like them, which is why the two groups are often confused. But if you are being harassed at a picnic by insects that swarm around the ham and ...

Carpenter bees are big and, to the uninitiated, scary-looking. But the males don’t have stingers, and the females only use ...

Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other insect known to display such a shade. The velvet ants’ coloring is closer to ...

It is called entomophobia which means an irrational and uncontrollable fear (phobia) of insects, usually a specific insect or group of insects (wasps and bees in your son's case). Not many people ...

In the vast realm of insects, certain beetles, mites, and other insects—including bees, ants, and wasps—use a unique system of sex determination known as haplodiploidy. In this system, the sexual ...

These hornets are bad news for bees - but thanks to people reporting their nests, scientists say they have not managed to settle in the UK.