As with butterflies, these beautiful bugs have not evolved their colorful looks for humans to admire, but to camouflage ...

Our wasp expert Dr Gavin Broad, says, ‘Wasps are generally apex predators - so if they’re not doing well, it indicates that there is something wrong with the world.’ Wasps are hugely beneficial to ...

Whether you have your windows open during summer or hosting an outdoor gathering, it can get frustrating when wasps invade your space. And while such insects are nature’s pest control ...

Just in time for Halloween, for those of you who are afraid of spiders I will take that phobia and raise it by one- maybe ...

Now researchers have shown that caterpillars can sense the electrostatic fields of approaching wasps—the first such predator-prey interaction recorded on land. All responded with defensive behavior.

The influence of stress on a bumblebee was unambiguous. In their results, the team concluded the perturbed bees were ...

Montana’s spider wasps are like the Xenomorph from Alien—terrifying predators that paralyze spiders and use them as live ...

The Wilkins’ Bunting birds, a rare species living on the Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic, won’t go extinct anytime ...

While mosquitoes and other insects including bees and wasps disappear after summer, this vicious, aggressive yellowjacket species is starting to dangerously buzz around even more. Eggs laid in ...

It’s just about 330 light-years away from us. Yet another distant world has come to sharper focus thanks to the collective scientific muscle of citizen scientists. A large team led by Federico ...

Wasps appear to inject something into leaves that causes them to grow a gall that protects their eggs, keeping them safe from predators and the weather. Some wasps make their own galls ...

We take a look at the last few weeks of the summer season for wasps — which, for almost all of them, is also the last few weeks of their lives.