The nests start to develop in late spring, when queen wasps emerge from hibernation. Building a small nest of just a few paper cells, the queen must rear the first set of workers alone before the ...

If the queen can't find a nest site and gather enough resources, or perishes before workers emerge, the colony will fail before it even gets started. Like butterflies, wasps and bees start life as ...

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

Some choose to nest underground. The process begins when a queen wasp emerges from hibernation, as she promptly searches for a place to call home. Providing for herself, the queen settles on a ...

It is common for a queen bee or ant to mate with a male once ... an area where locals eat larva collected from wasp nests as a longtime practice. Saga obtained disease-causing fungi from dead ...

Those that do, emerge when the weather warms up. These female wasps begin to form new colonies. After building a small nest, the new queen lays eggs of the first workers. Gavin says, ‘At the beginning ...