Aphids can create all kinds of destruction in your garden, causing disfigured or yellowing leaves on your plants and trees and even spreading diseases to your plants. Luckily, parasitic wasps can ...

Instead of eating insects and spiders, adult wasps - both social and solitary - only feed on sugars. In the wild, sugars come from flower nectar and honeydew produced by aphids. Wasp larvae also ...

Infestations are often kept in check by predators. Both native predators, such as ladybirds, hoverflies and lacewings, and an introduced parasite attack woolly aphids. The introduced parasite, a tiny ...

Conservationists credit a species of parasitoid wasp for keeping Wilkins’ Bunting birds alive Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE as a writer ...

We take a look at the last few weeks of the summer season for wasps — which, for almost all of them, is also the last few weeks of their lives. The wind has started howling, the mercury has plunged ...

Gardeners the world over dread the appearance of aphids on their plants. There are around 4,000 species of these sap-sucking insects and about 250 are pests that can wreak havoc on crops in a ...

It will come as little surprise to many to learn that a long-running study into insect populations in cereal crops – the ...

The atmosphere of gas planet WASP-107b is a bit lopsided, and that could teach astronomers something new about alien weather. WASP-107b is a strikingly fluffy planet, only about a tenth as dense ...

These pesky bugs are relatively harmless. While they’re around all year long, they’re only really noticeable for a few days ...

There have been anecdotal reports of larger-than-normal wasp populations in certain parts of Canada in recent weeks — Alberta is abuzz as are the Prairies You can save this article by ...

Home owners are being warned to watch out for the signs of wasp infestation as we head into the autumn. Rentokil Pest Control says the Common and German Wasps present a threat of infestation over ...