Another example are the solitary wasps known as velvet ants. Female velvet ants lay eggs on the pupae of other species. When their eggs hatch, the young wasps devour their defenceless host. Instead of ...

Social wasps (called yellow-jackets in some places) live in colonies consisting of hundreds or thousands of more-or-less sterile female workers and their much larger mother, the egg-laying queen.

One had mealy bugs and as I cleaned them off, I found mud pots on a branch. I had potter wasps! There are many wasps that are predators, pollinators and not trying to get people. The potter wasp ...

Both paper wasps and potter wasps in particular enjoy goldenrod. The plant can grow tall and tends to look nice, so some might enjoy it in their garden, but if you want to keep wasps away it isn't ...

Let’s broaden the topic and not only think of women in leadership, but of allowing more characteristically “female” attributes in leadership per se. After all, not all men are alpha male and ...

An army of beneficial bugs is fighting the bad bugs that gnaw on your vegetables, protecting the borders of the largest ...

who was traveling with the “Rise Above” exhibit about the Tuskegee Airmen and the WASPS (female pilots). “That racist strategy could not have backfired more,” Allen said while introducing ...

Just in time for Halloween, for those of you who are afraid of spiders I will take that phobia and raise it by one- maybe ...

The incapacitated spider is either held captive in its own burrow or dragged to the wasp's nest. The female then lays a single egg on the spider's body. The purpose of this act: a pre-prepared dinner.

A new species of wasp has been discovered parasitizing adult ... and carefully studied its life cycle. Female S. perlmani use their ovipositors to deposit their eggs in the fruit fly’s abdomen ...