Like bees and butterflies, wasps are pollinators—so they can be good bugs to have around. But unlike these other insects, ...

Bees aren't out to get you, but some pack a painful punch if pushed too far. There are over 20,000 bee species worldwide, but here we narrowed it down to the 15 that stand out for their sting strength ...

It was a beautiful warm day and I was working on my tomatoes. I realized they had been exposed to too much sunshine and ...

What started as a quiet ride down a Chicago-area highway turned chaotic in seconds when a swarm of angry wasps launched a ...

Highly aggressive Africanized honey bees, the so-called "killer bees," are moving north and spreading as climate change ...

Wild Things columnist Eric Brown is buzzing with enthusiasm about the varied insects to be found during a record sunny spring and the benefits ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

Bumblebees typically nest in the ground, often in abandoned rodent burrows, while solitary bees may create nests in hollow plant stems, wood, or soil. Wasp nests are architecturally different, ...

Bald-faced hornets are around three-quarters of an inch long, with black bodies and gray bands. Their nests are typically large and enclosed, containing over 100 hornets inside.

Social wasps build nests in a variety of areas, whereas solitary wasps can be parasitic or predatory, but only the predatory ones build nests. Wasp vs. Bee: Aggressiveness You could’ve guessed already ...