ANN ARBOR--A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the ...

Wasps are some of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet, but you definitely do not want to harass them. Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, ...

Social wasps exhibit extraordinary foraging strategies that combine innate behavioural patterns with learned adaptations. Central to their success is the utilisation of olfactory cues, which not only ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental diseases? In a new paper, researchers led by István Mikó and Holly Hoag at ...

The tropical bug Antiteuchus tripterus and two parasites of its eggs, Trissolcus bodkini and Phanuropsis semiflaviventris, were studied in urban Cali, Colombia. Female bugs guard both their eggs and ...

Bees that once hovered around flowers and wasps that appeared at picnic tables almost vanish overnight. The inevitable ...

Male wasps of three sympatric species of Nearctic Megarhyssa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) typically form mixed-species (61.7%) aggregations composed of up to 28 males over sites of female emergence.

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For those who have asked what the point of wasps is, there is now a comprehensive answer. They are ...

What’s buzzing around California? It’s not bees or mosquitoes, it’s wasps. Active year-round, wasps are most noticeable from March through November. This peak season sees their colonies at full size, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before a ground wasp leaves its burrow to forage, it takes to the air to perform a peculiar ...

An aggressive wasp with no known predators is being found in record numbers in Western Australia, with suburbs in Perth's Hills and foothills most at risk. European wasps have a painful sting and can ...