Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

The wasp species Vespula shidai has long been reared for its edible larvae, a delicacy in central Japan. The rural woodlands of Japan which these wasps inhabit are areas of high biodiversity.

The common wasp, or vespula vulgaris, has been on Earth for millions of years.Its lineage dates back about 260 million to 270 million years to the Late Permian period. The oldest fossils are from ...

Gavin adds, ‘The red wasp, Vespula rufa, and the tree wasp, Dolichovespula sylvestris, are also common. The Saxon wasp, Dolichovespula saxonica, only arrived in Britain in the 1980s and it’s mainly ...

The common wasp, or vespula vulgaris, has been on Earth for millions of years. Its lineage dates back about 260 million to 270 million years to the Late Permian period.

The Big Wasp Survey, a citizen science project involving thousands of volunteers throughout the UK, has yielded important genetic insights into the common wasp, reports a study led by UCL researchers.

The wasp species Vespula shidai has long been reared for its edible larvae, a delicacy in central Japan. The rural woodlands of Japan which these wasps inhabit are areas of high biodiversity.

It was a beautiful warm day and I was working on my tomatoes. I realized they had been exposed to too much sunshine and ...

Workers of Vespula squamosa (Drury) exhibited alarm behavior in response to extracts of conspecific workers applied to black spheres or black paper cans. This behavior included recruitment from the ...

What good are wasps? It's a question we hear all the time. And, let's face it, wasps are routinely demonised . They interrupt picnics (t ...