The majority of insects are considered beneficial or harmless. Of course, those are the ones we want to have hanging around.

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 full-scale assault on a trailer carrying a horse named Sir Kellogg. The ...

Everyone knows how valuable bees are to your garden because they are pollinating your flowers. But they’re not the only ...

For the past few weeks, in between raindrops, I have been trying to paint the lower part of our house. When I removed the shutters, I found a small community of wasps, spiders and other insects.

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 ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

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 ...

As burrowing wasps, they are also known to prefer loose soils in full sun. ... If you get stung, it won’t feel nice, with Larson comparing it to a hornet’s sting in terms of the pain.