Mud daubers are considered a biological pest control solution because they kill spiders and other insects in the house. Now that you're equipped with the right gear to get rid of a wasp nest ...

Wasps, with their big eyes and weirdly delicate dangling legs, send shivers down the spine. I've been stung once in my life, and my seven-year-old mind manufactured a horror-movie scene involving ...

Wasps are probably best known for disrupting summer picnics, but they are actually very important in keeping the ecosystem balanced, providing us with natural pest control. Without wasps, the world ...

Parasitoid wasps use other insects as hosts for their offspring, eating them alive and fresh. These species are often used as a natural pesticide in agriculture, as the wasps' offspring feeds on or in ...

The wasp eggs hatch first ... quite a bit of effort to both save seeds and to mitigate the spread of that pest.” Oregon’s emerald ash borer invasion was first discovered in Forest Grove ...

But wasps—just like bees and butterflies—are important pollinators in our floral ecosystems, and also help keep annoying pest bug populations down. So, if you've noticed the huge wasps and ...

Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered five new species of parasitic wasps, with one from Nagaland and four from the Western Ghats. These beneficial wasps play a crucial role ...

While the cane toad was introduced as a form of pest control for human benefit, here the Malaysian micro-wasp would be used mainly to help return the red crab population to its old numbers.