Unlike bees, wasps don’t store food for the winter and the majority of wasps die off when temperatures fall below freezing.

Some bugs can be tricky to tell apart, especially when you don't want to get close! Here's how to distinguish a paper wasp vs yellow jacket.

Police say they found the body of a missing woman behind a secret entrance to a home's attic in Northern California on Wednesday. The woman, Renia Lewis, 28, of Vallejo, California, had been missing ...

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If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

At this time of year, you might notice an uptick in buzzing visitors around your patio, compost pile or refuse bins. The striped yellow, orange and black pollinators we laud in spring and summer seem ...

Nils Bernstein is a food, drink, and travel editor and writer based in Mexico City. He is the food editor for Wine Enthusiast and has written for such publications as Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Food & ...

At least two different populations of a parasitic wasp native to Europe have been found on opposite coasts of North America. But no one knows how they got there. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes ...

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Scientists have just identified two previously unknown species of parasitic wasps living in the United States. The discovery is described in a study in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research led by ...

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Six months after he published “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin wrote a letter to his friend, Asa Gray. He was troubled by a family of parasitic wasps, the ichneumonidae, that lays its eggs ...