Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them Watch a mud wasp build a nest and entomb its prey These feature finely painted human forms, often in elaborate ceremonial dress and carrying ...

Not all wasps are social. Some prefer a solitary life and build simpler nests to rear their young. There are 200 species in the UK that make this type of nest. Tarantula hawks are wasps with what is ...

Age of the ancient Aboriginal paintings was estimated from age of mud wasp nests that are over and under these paintings This method dates rock art, even in the absence of carbon in the paintings ...

A student in Italy did an experiment with wasps and colored paper, which resulted in the insects building rainbow nests. This ...

"I don't think any human can make something like that." The trust said that in one of its nature reserves they came across seven wasp nests last year. This year they only found one. Mr Webb ...

Revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the multitude of smaller animals without backbones – whether on land, in the air or in water. Georgina was at the waterhole early to ...

Vespula wasps make their nests underground, making them prone to attract germs. “Their nests are more likely to be infected with germs, and such an environment might have had an effect on the ...

wasps make up the largest biomass; greater than everything else put together, with some of their nests growing to three metres in height. According to Serian Sumner: “Wasps invented paper ...

Inspired by the way mud dauber wasps build their nests, one assistant professor began to consider the ways we could build ...