While only an average of 72 Americans died from hornet, wasp and bee stings each year between 2011 and 2021, according to the ...

In 2023, researchers were in the process of introducing the samba wasp to control the SWD population. Now, there are new ...

Hornets are wasps, but not every wasp is a hornet. They do have a few distinctive behaviors, like building large, cone- or egg-shaped nests. You really should not mess with them and if you find a ...

The yellow-legged hornet is a prolific predator of honey bees and other pollinators. Now it's been spotted alive in the wild in the U.S. for the first time.

Fairy flies, a.k.a. fairy wasps, are a family of about 1400 wasp species native to tropical climates. They grow up to 1 millimeter in length, making them the world’s smallest insects known to ...

Pond frogs ate every wasp they encountered, but 35 percent of the intact male wasps were able to fight off tree frog predation with pseudo stings, causing the frogs to spit them out.

The Saxon wasp, Dolichovespula saxonica, only arrived in Britain in the 1980s and it’s mainly common in the south.’ ‘The European hornet, Vespa crabro, is quite common in parts of the south, but it is ...

PEOPLE DOMESTICATED sheep and cattle, wheat and maize. Wasps domesticated viruses. And, just as domesticating other species helped human populations explode, so viral domestication assisted an ...