With summer right around the corner, insects that left as the cooler months approached will make their return. One such ...

Scientists Found a Wasp That Controls Other Wasps Like Puppets, and the Discovery Raised More Questions Than Answers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wasp in flightGetty Images/Renaud Visage Wasps are some of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet, but you definitely do ...

ANN ARBOR--A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have used an innovative approach to reveal the molecular basis of altruistic behavior in wasps. The research team focused on the expression of ...

They buzz. They hover. Sometimes they sting. But how much do you really know about these insects that can menace our summers? By Cara Giaimo Wasps get a bad rap. And sometimes, they deserve it.

The sausages are sizzling, the burgers browned, and the beer is cold. You’re all set for the perfect end-of-summer BBQ. Alfresco dining, drinks in a garden of a country pub, ice-creams – we grasp at ...

My colleagues and I step in with a defense of wasps, about their important role in ecosystems as pest controllers and pollinators and how their life history helps explain their behavior. But this year ...

A new study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp. A new ...

Researchers have used an innovative approach to reveal the molecular basis of altruistic behavior in wasps. Like honey bee workers, wasp workers give up their reproductive capabilities and focus ...