A fear of wasps is relatively common among many. If it’s not the anticipatory buzz of nearby wings that gets you, it’s the ...

Last year, I posted an essay called Some Truths About the Fascinating Lives of Wasps, which discussed an article published in New Scientist by Richard Jones called "Not so Waspish," with the subtitle, ...

How can you tell the difference between a yellowjacket and a hornet? And how much cosmic xp do you need to evolve a wasp into ...

NEW YORK — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set ...

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern on the back of the thorax) are making themselves known. The males, ...

An enormous 40-litre nest of European wasps is discovered on the south coast of WA — the last frontier for the invasive ...

It’s true that most people do not put the words “beautiful” and “insect” together unless they’re thinking of butterflies. But there are beautiful insects out there that are not butterflies. As with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have ...