For homeowners hoping to wait them out, it's best to know how long wasps normally live. Here's the answer to the important questions about a wasp's lifespan and what to know before going all-in on ...

Social wasps (called yellow-jackets in some places) live in colonies consisting of hundreds or thousands of more-or-less sterile female workers and their much larger mother, the egg-laying queen.

As far as we know, parasitoid wasps and flies don't attack adult butterflies - they don't generally live very long, so they're not a good food source. 'But every other stage - egg, caterpillar and ...