As we transition to warmer weather in the austral summer, many changes take place. Domestic dogs and cats may shed winter ...

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

If the queen can't find a nest site and gather enough resources, or perishes before workers emerge, the colony will fail before it even gets started. Like butterflies, wasps and bees start life as ...

Social wasps (called yellow-jackets in some places) live in colonies consisting of hundreds or thousands of more-or-less sterile female workers and their much larger mother, the egg-laying queen.

If the queen can’t find a nest site and gather enough resources, or perishes before workers emerge, the colony will fail before it even gets started. Like butterflies, wasps and bees start life ...

The project captures queen hornets as they emerge from hibernation ... "Most likely, it will be a harmless queen wasp, but it is always a possibility, so we are keen to follow up every report." ...

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 ...