The insect of the year 2025 helps foresters combat the pest known as the wood wasp. This insect, which roughly resembles a hornet, lays eggs in both live trees, leading to their death, and freshly ...

Without wasps, the world could be overrun with spiders and insects. Each summer, social wasps in the UK capture an estimated 14 million kilogrammes of insect prey, such as caterpillars and greenfly.

The insect of the year 2025 helps foresters combat the pest known as the wood wasp. This insect, which bears some resemblance to a hornet, lays eggs in both live and freshly cut trees, leading to ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

The pain from a bullet ant sting lasts up to 24 hours, whereas that of the tarantula hawk wasp usually only aggravates the unlucky victim for five minutes. Schmidt has also in the past suggested that ...

Officials are asking that a new wasp be deployed throughout the state ... s needed to get state and federal permits for the new insect’s release. Erythrina gall wasps, mostly yellow, 6- to ...

They are the young pretenders while wasps are the granddaddies of the insect world. There are a staggering 150,000 species of wasp and only a tiny, tiny minority cause us trouble. In the UK it is ...

The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.

In the intricate tapestry of nature, few threads are as overlooked—yet vital—as insects. For Professor Michal Segoli of ...

The larvae belong to a type of wasp called parasitoids, whose young dine on the flesh of hosts their parents pick out for them. But research published Thursday (July 29) in Science suggests that not ...

After the rush of the spring nesting season, things tend to slow down a bit in the natural world. Sure, some birds such as Cedar Waxwings and American Goldfinch are just getting started in their ...