The handful of colony-living, nest-building species is just a tiny fraction of overall wasp diversity, estimated at more than 9,000 species in the UK alone. Most wasps are solitary, some are tiny ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony. Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to ...

“Age expectancy depends on the type of wasp and their role in the social colony,” says Bob Gilbert, a board-certified entomologist at Blue Sky Pest Control. Yellowjackets, paper ...

“I thought, Oh God, if this keeps happening, they will kill my whole colony,” says photographer Ingo Arndt, whose yard in Langen, Germany, hosts the honeybees. But as the week wore on, the ...

The number of females in a wasp colony is very considerable. They are hatched about the lattet' part of July or during the frst part of August, at the same time and in about the same numbers as ...

A high school teacher trying to solve the mystery of why queen Vespula wasps mate with many different males thinks the practice might have evolved to stave off a catastrophic colony collapse.