Coast live oak leaves with brown, scorched margins due to feeding on the leaf underside by the two-horned oak gall wasp. (Photo by Jack Kelly Clark) These wasps are native to California, and form ...

Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, sport various shades of black, yellow, brown and gold on their exoskeletons — these particular wasps are ...

Last July, I crossed paths with an insect that looked like the living embodiment of my favorite drawing game. Using folded paper, players add to a communal image without seeing The Outside Story: ...

Paper wasps are vespid (stinging) wasps that have long legs. These wasps are reddish-brown to black in color with yellow markings. The most common paper wasps are 5/8 to 3/4 inches in length.

Killer cicada wasps are large, black or dark brown wasps, approximately two inches in length. They have amber colored wings and yellow markings on their abdomen.

The insect is one of the largest wasps in the United States, reaching a size of about 1.5 inches in length, according to Wizzie Brown, a senior program specialist at Texas A&M AgriLife.

Samurai wasps are a natural predator of the brown marmorated stink bug. As pictured, the wasps lay their eggs inside the bug's eggs, killing the embryo inside. (Warren Wong) ...