Why it's awesome: Despite the name, panda ants are a type of wasp belonging to the Mutillidae family, whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. They have a velvety white coat, with black ...
These female wasps begin to form new colonies. After building a small nest ... These species are very similar in size and colour - predominantly yellow with black markings. ‘The European hornet, Vespa ...
Both wasps and black widows are human-adapted, and people have created ideal habitats like roof underhangs for paper wasp nests and dry, undisturbed places like crawl spaces for black widows.
One wasp, Hyposoter horticola, employs a sinister tactic to get inside its host, the egg of the Glanville Fritillary butterfly. After keeping a close eye on a set of new butterfly eggs, a female wasp ...