In North America, worker wasps—infertile female wasps—build the nest, feed larvae, forage for food, and defend the nest. This activity takes a toll on their body, leading to a shorter lifespan. Drone ...

Avoiding wasps, dying blue spruces, and the last pruning: This Weekend in the Garden Published: Aug. 18, 2023, 5:15 a.m. Watch out for this guy in the late-summer garden -- the baldfaced hornet.

Like paper wasps, bald-faced hornets feed their young insects, and the adults eat nectar. They build their nests in shrubs or trees, or under the eaves of buildings. Their nests are gray and pear ...

Paper wasps stitch this silk into their nests, ... glowed more of a teal blue-green. But in the light of day, all paper wasp nests are a vaguely yellow off-white. ...

Paper wasps have a similar-sized nervous system to honeybees, and both insects have brains about the same size as a grain of rice. However paper wasps show more complex social behaviors.

Larvae of some paper wasp species use mysteriously fluorescent silk to weave the container in which they mature to adulthood. By Cara Giaimo Adult paper wasps are capable builders, painstakingly ...

While trekking through the tropical forests of northern Vietnam, scientists unexpectedly discovered wasp nests that glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light. The nests, which look like a ...