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Faced Hornet Nest Look Like? “What kind of hive is in my tree?” asks Birds & Blooms reader Caren Holderman of Kankakee, Illinois. Birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, Several kinds of wasps ...

Few creatures deliver a sting quite like the tarantula hawk wasp – known as one of the most excruciatingly painful stings in ...

3D printed models of a wasp (front), a fly (rear), and a series of intermediate mimics generated by 3D morphing. Experts from the University of Nottingham have created life-size 3D-printed insect ...

ONE of my most abiding memories of childhood is a coach trip to Whipsnade Zoo with my friend Sharon and her family. An unfortunate accident with the bottle of orange squash her mum had brought for our ...

In urban environments, competing hornet species coexist by specializing on different prey species. This finding was made ...

It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea, and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects that exist only to make our lives a misery. But with ...

The quality of hoverfly mimicry can vary– from detailed disguises to the insect equivalent of slapping on a pair of cat ears for a Halloween party. Evolutionary biologists have long questioned why it ...