When most of us think of wasps, we automatically think of noisy insects whose stings hurt badly. They sting just like bees, ...

They're called paper wasps because they'll scrape wood from houses and chew it into a pulp to make paper-like nests shaped like umbrellas. The ideal paper wasp environment is a temperate climate ...

A new species of wasp has been discovered ... the authors wrote in the paper. “All known parasitoid wasps of flies attack and develop inside immature life stages,” said study co-author ...

our native northern paper wasp and the invasive European paper wasp. They both have an extremely pinched waist and are of similar size. Our native species is nearly completely dark brown while the ...

Wasps have a place in the whirl of summer life. They raise families ... There are a number of paper wasp species native to particular areas of the United States, as well as an invasive one ...