or solitary wasps, with the hornets having a reputation as the more aggressive species. Each species looks different, but ...

Swarms of parasitic wasps will descend upon Kona coffee farms this spring as a long-gestating plan to control an invasive ...

Though both belong to the same insect species (Hymenoptera), they're very different insects. Their appearances are ...

which can attack, defoliate, and kill large stands of jack pines in North America, play host to 11 different species of parasitoid wasps. It appears that most of these species coexist because they ...

estimated at more than 9,000 species in the UK alone. Most wasps are solitary, some are tiny (a few species practically microscopic), none ever bother us and virtually all are overlooked.

Wasps have generally earned themselves a bad reputation. But despite their occasional aggression, these insects play an important role in the ecosystem. There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in ...

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 ...

They are visibly different to native species, with a dark body ... Professor Hart said: "Bees and wasps play an important role as pollinators – transferring pollen as they visit flowers to ...