Some creatures get VIP invitations to our backyards—you may plant a garden to attract butterflies or build a bat house to help with mosquito control. But wasps are one of those insects most ...

Unlike the large globular nests of the hornets, those of the paper wasps are simply a mass of uncovered cells, ranging in numbers from ffty to five hundred. These are suspended by a single central ...

To uncover the genetic basis of wasp face recognition, researchers analyzed gene expression in the brains of paper-wasp species that had been trained to recognize faces and compared that with wasps ...

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 ...