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 ...

Wasps have generally earned themselves a bad reputation. But despite their occasional aggression, these insects play an important role in the ecosystem. There are over 7,000 species of wasp living in ...

The handful of colony-living, nest-building species is just a tiny fraction of overall wasp diversity, estimated at more than 9,000 species in the UK alone. Most wasps are solitary, some are tiny ...

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We don't really do "big" in the UK, so as you might expect there ... he's shown me some of the most impressive nests in the NHM's collection. "Wasps probably gave us the idea for paper," he ...

There is another reason to celebrate wasps, though: their nests, which are always magnificent feats of papery invertebrate architecture. Although the quarters of some species are hidden in the ground ...

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 ...

“Simply passing too close to a wasp nest can trigger an attack as the pests are very aggressive.” Some wasps tend to be more aggressive than others, though: Paper wasps ...

as the sugary secretions provided by wasp larvae in the nest will no longer be available to them as these larvae will have matured. This change, alongside the breaking down of the social order of ...

Typically at this time, wasps will be in search of carbohydrates for energy, as the sugary secretions provided by wasp larvae in the nest will no longer be available to them as these larvae will have ...

The following day, Mrs. Sorscher noticed another two wasps. “This is very strange,” she said to her husband. “There must be a nest somewhere,” Mr. Sorscher replied. “I’ll look outside ...