The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have found only about 1 million species, that means more than 4.5 million species ...

Learn more about different types of wasps and how to get rid of wasps and their nests around your home. The thousands of wasp species in the Vespidae family are divided into solitary or social ...

These insects do plenty of good in our lawns and gardens, and not all types of wasps are aggressive. Most of the time, wasps mind their own business. “Wasps are pollinators and provide ...

A team of researchers at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) are using 2500 wasps imported from Chile as their ...

But despite their occasional aggression, these insects play an important role in the ecosystem. There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in the UK, comprising a huge variety of solitary and social ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony. Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to ...

In an initial 3-hour lab, students first design experiments to examine intraspecific and interspecific competition using two species of parasitoid wasps. Second, students are guided to a consensus ...

In this investigation, we will examine the effects of competition for resources on reproductive output within and between two species of parasitoid wasps. Ecological communities are composed of ...

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 ...

More than thirty years after the WASPs were disbanded in December 1944, the women pilots of World War II were shocked by a series of headlines in the paper. The U.S. Air Force announced that women ...