There are over 100,000 species of wasps, each with different habits and life cycles. Wasps are important pollinators and help control harmful insects that destroy food crops. Drones or worker wasps ...

When most of us think of wasps, we automatically think of noisy insects whose stings hurt badly. They sting just like bees; however, unlike a bee, a wasp can continue to sting you over and over again.

Mind control is a phenomenon confined to daydreams and the movies. Or maybe not! In a peaceful field in the French countryside a parasitic tango between a wasp and a virus leaves the wasp, Leptopilina ...

What’s buzzing around Arizona? It’s not bees or mosquitoes, it’s wasps. Active year-round, wasps are most noticeable during the summer months, particularly from June through September. This peak ...

Wasps are pollinators in the garden, but not insects you want to encounter around your home, yard, or patio—they are more aggressive than bees, and you don't want to get stung while lounging outside.

Delicate ferns lay across the still water, when suddenly, a writhing caterpillar bursts to the surface, followed closely by a determined wasp. Wrenching the caterpillar into position, the wasp quickly ...

Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in or on their hosts. The wasps' larvae then consume the host, sometimes from the inside out. Parasitoid wasps can be found on every single continent except Antarctica.