Queen bumble bees and yellowjackets only live for about one year. They emerge as adults in autumn, mate, then hibernate over ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony. Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to ...

But you may be more familiar with the black and yellow social species. Colonies of social wasps are considered annoying pests - they often nest in manmade structures and deal out painful stings if you ...

Species in this group have ovipositors ... let me go until he's shown me some of the most impressive nests in the NHM's collection. "Wasps probably gave us the idea for paper," he says.

Some types of wasps build large nests in inconvenient places, such as under awnings, above doorways, or inside sheds or ...

Bumble bees and yellowjacket wasps typically nest in the ground (though you might see some nesting in trees or buildings). To locate the perfect nest site, both species search for abandoned rodent ...

The nest is likely to have been built by many wasps over several years ... but they're able to help control pest species on our crops, and without them we'll be overrun with caterpillars.