As high temperatures persist across parts of California, you may have noticed an uptick of stinging insects zipping around your property. Wasp season is typically between March and November but the ...

Today's Bug of the Week was sent to Castanet via Revelstoke. A reader spotted what appears to be a nasty wasp of some sort ...

“I found some large holes in between the bricks in my driveway, along with some little piles of sand by the holes. I was wondering what insect might be making them, as I do not see any ants in the ...

Yellowjackets make me anxious, but this young man remained calm when these wasps crawled up his arm or landed on his juice ...

URBANA — Wasps have an undeserved bad reputation. While some species can be a tad on the aggressive side, they are, as a whole, rather beneficial, said horticulture educator Ken Johnson, with the ...

I came to work this morning and noticed a jelly jar on my desk that contained a large wasp. I wasn’t too surprised. It’s not uncommon for my desk to have a plethora of jars and plastic bags on it. I ...

New video of a large wasp dragging an even larger cicada features an insect found across much of North America, but which has become newly attention-grabbing because of its similarity to the so-called ...

The Big Wasp Survey, a citizen science project involving thousands of volunteers throughout the UK, has yielded important genetic insights into the common wasp, reports a study led by UCL researchers.

Some wasps have developed bigger eyes, and thus better vision, to read the social cues written on the faces of their sister wasps, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study. "The ...