This tiny, half-centimetre insect dazzles with a striking black abdomen adorned with white dots and red markings. A fascinating parasitic species, it lays its eggs in the nests of other digger wasps, ...

How Do Black Wasps Benefit Human Beings? The great black wasp is an extremely big-sized species with opaque wings that are black in color and have a bluish shine to them. In scientific classification, ...

This ‘acid grassland’ is now a rare and nationally-important habitat and is home to wildlife which loves sun and bare, patchy ground – mining bees, digger wasps, butterflies, insect-eating birds, and ...

What is surprising, though, is that those big bees and wasps we see in the spring are the queens—not the workers—building their nests all on their own. Bumble bees and yellowjacket wasps ...

What are oak gall wasps? Oaks, especially the native species Quercus robur and Q. petraea are the host plants for more than 70 species of cynipid gall wasp. It is the larval stage of these insects ...

Tom Voyce celebrates Wasps's 2005 Premiership final win with team-mates Mark Van Gisbergen (left) and Rob Hoadley (right) The most recent picture posted to Tom Voyce's Instagram page is a team ...

Washington Bee Atlas volunteer and WSDA Communications Consultant Karla Salp shares adventures she had and lessons she ...

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