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 ...

The Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society provides a forum for entomologists and all other researchers interested in insects or other terrestrial arthropods, their evolution, ecology, behavior, ...

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, ...

A keyhole wasp can block up an airplane's external sensor in as little as 30 minutes. House et al (2020) PLOS ONE, CC BY New research conducted at Brisbane airport shows how the invasive keyhole wasp ...

Chadab-Crepet, Ruth and Rettenmeyer, Carl W. 1982. "Comparative behavior of social wasps when attacked by army ants or other predators and parasites." In The Biology ...