Fairy wasps are some of the tiniest creatures on Earth, an entire insect roughly the size of a single-celled organism like an amoeba. That means their individual cells must be incredibly tiny…and that ...

It's fall. The leaves are changing, the days are getting cooler and... are the insects really bad? If you've noticed an uptick in activity and general annoyance from insects of a stinging variety – ...

Ah, nature. With giant squids, spiders spinning webs, and fireflies glowing inside of frogs, it never stops surprising us. It seems that yellow jackets—a predatory wasp—are being added to this list.

An analysis of 429 specimens belonging to 39 species representative of the diversity of Polistes in the Americas confirmed the inverse of Bergmann’s rule by pointing to larger body size for species ...

Wasp populations normally spike towards the very end of the Summer, as the insects prepare to breed before dying in the winter. However, Andrew Dellbridge of Ace Pest Control in Norfolk said hot ...

Have you ever seen a wasp and thought, “Gee, I wonder how we can make these non-pollinating, human-hating demon insects even worse?” If so, you’re in luck. A group of scientists from the University of ...

One yellow jacket can break up a pool party or summer picnic; just imagine what 15,000 would do. Alabama natives are starting to do just that after multiple massive "super nests" were discovered in ...