A student in Italy did an experiment with wasps and colored paper, which resulted in the insects building rainbow nests. This is how they do it. Italian biological science student Mattia Menchetti ...

"We wanted to blend our research, and realized that researchers spent so much time studying the behavior of paper wasps but not the microbes — bacteria, fungi, etc. — that exist in their nests," ...

The world’s largest hornet has been declared eradicated in the U.S. The invasive northern giant hornet is also known as the ...

Some creatures get VIP invitations to our backyards—you may plant a garden to attract butterflies or build a bat house to ...

One recent study highlights this phenomenon, which is called biofluorescence. The nests of Asian paper wasps produce a brilliant, lime green glow when seen under ultraviolet light. In fact ...

The nest is likely to have been built by many wasps over several years ... create a sort of laminate of the wood pulp, a bit like paper, that dries and solidifies. This process is repeated ...

Wasps collect pulp to smooth into hexagonal paper cells (similar to the inside of a honey bee nest) where the defenseless larvae will grow. They usually collect this pulp from untreated wood—the ...

Since they started building the nests earlier, he said, the queens will be able to reproduce more workers. Queen wasps reproduce until the end of the summer. Hahn said early eradication of wasp nests ...

A typical wasp nest holds up to 10,000 wasps - but Jacquie says that recent nests have been bigger and more difficult to control. However, as the weather begins to get colder, wasp activity should ...

As the weather heats up bee and wasp queens emerge from hibernation in search of a place to start their nests.