Before peat moss, often called Sphagnum moss, entered the horticultural scene in the 1960s, commercial growers and homeowners would formulate their own media for plant propagation. This process of tri ...

Larvae rely entirely on older generations to survive. Wasps collect pulp to smooth into hexagonal paper cells (similar to the inside of a honey bee nest) where the defenseless larvae will grow.

A team of molecular and physiology specialists at the Yale University School of Medicine has uncovered some of the hibernating secrets of thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and have partly explained ...

Whether you’re present hunting or just looking for some holiday joy, here’s some free-admission events to look forward to going into the new month.

Weather maps suggest snow will begin to fall in western Scotland from midday on December 9, spreading to Northern Ireland, mid Wales and parts of Cumbria and Lancashire by midnight on December 10.

Their guardians had turned to tiny parasitic wasps called Trichogramma, which lay their eggs inside moth eggs, destroying the larvae. Wasps were arguably grosser than moths, but at least they didn ...

The series of protests, known as the White Paper Movement or A4 Revolution, was a rare act of nationwide defiance against the Chinese leadership — the biggest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square ...

When it was first published in 1984, Iain Banks' debut novel 'The Wasp Factory', was described as a "a work of unparalleled depravity" and also "a masterpiece". Today the book is considered one of ...

She has more than five years of experience working in media. Parchment paper is one of our editors’ go-to kitchen staples. It’s incredibly versatile and can be both reused and recycled for a more ...

On Friday, employees of Paper City Fabrics on High Street learned that their business had been broken into, and people were sleeping in the basement. A few hours later, a Holyoke Parking Authority ...

of the species on Christmas Island, Australia. Now, a micro-wasp has helped restore balance. Every year on Christmas Island, the first smattering of rain from the wet season kicks off a ...

Wasp is a set of Grasshopper components, developed in Python, directed at representing and designing with discrete elements (Rossi and Tessmann 2017). This is achieved by combining geometric ...