“These nests can be challenging to notice or locate until you are trimming them, and they vigorously defend their territories.” Below are three common types of wasps nests to look out fo ...

Whether you're mowing the lawn or hosting a cookout, the last thing you want to worry about is stinging insects such as wasps. But the truth is that wasps have a somewhat undeserved bad reputation.

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 ...

But you may be more familiar with the black and yellow social species. Colonies of social wasps are considered annoying pests - they often nest in manmade structures and deal out painful stings if you ...

Now, according to conservationists, bumblebees have been starting to build nests in winter due to climate change, when they ...

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 ...

We spent the following week exploring the nest and learning all about wasps. The children were eager and excited to see and ...

The European hornet (Vespa crabro) made up 6%, while two rarer species were also ... are the size of honey bees, with black and bright yellow markings. They build nests in the ground, logs or ...

Scientists accidentally discover new species of wasp that lays eggs inside living, adult fruit flies, which then burst from the hosts' abdomens while they're still alive. DNA analysis indicates ...