The European hornet, the largest wasp species native to Europe, is recognizable by its reddish-brown head and thorax, with a black and yellow striped abdomen. Known for its potent sting ...

The small (1.1 to 1.7 millimeter long), shiny black and metallic ... are inside the Erythrina gall wasp, according to Lissa Fox Strohecker, Maui Invasive Species Committee spokeswoman.

hopes to find out which species of wasps live where in the UK, and provide some baseline data for an annual Big Wasp Survey over the coming years. As Dr Seirian Sumner (UCL) says: "The black and ...

Different chickadee species have similar diets and they all adore eating insects, including wasps. So whether you live in the ...

The wasp species is fairly common in Europe and is ... but still had the same black and yellow banding. He added there was no evidence it would hold any danger to native species.

Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new parasitic wasp species, Ceraphron initium, in Nagaland, and four other species in the Western Ghats. These findings ...

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 ...