Wasps, with their big eyes and weirdly delicate dangling legs, send shivers down the spine. I've been stung once in my life, and my seven-year-old mind manufactured a horror-movie scene involving a ...

And then lead it off to your lair by the stump, like a dog on a leash ... he's shown me some of the most impressive nests in the NHM's collection. "Wasps probably gave us the idea for paper ...

“However, they are not aggressive pollinators like bees.” Swift removal of a wasp’s nest might seem like the obvious solution, but it’s not always necessary, especially if wasp activity ...

“I’ll look outside the house.” Mr. Sorscher walked around the house. Indeed, he found that wasps had built a nest under an eve ... “We can’t go on living like this; it’s potentially ...

A new citizen science survey aims to shed light on that fixture of summertime in the outdoors: the wasp. Though much ... to build and defend the nest, collect food and look after the queen.

The wasp will go back to its nest with a small pellet of wood in its mouth and create a sort of laminate of the wood pulp, a bit like paper, that dries and solidifies. This process is repeated ...

There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in the UK, comprising a huge variety of solitary and social species. The majority are parasitoids, which have young that eat insects or spiders alive. But ...

Then there is the Oriental hornet, a bug native to northern Africa and south-western Asia that loves fermented fruits and is ...

Stinging insects, like bees and wasps ... will die after they sting, while wasps can sting more than once. While both insects will defend their nest if threatened, wasps tend to be more aggressive ...

Wasp stings are no joking matter. This time of year, stinging insects are fierce. You might come across a yellow jacket hive or hornet nest nest anywhere ... to use a product like the Bug Bite ...

A dried-out wasp nest is believed to have caused a fire in the roof of a bungalow. Kent Fire and Rescue Service attended the property on Fauchons Lane, Maidstone, at about 16:20 BST on Tuesday ...