Imagine walking through a quiet garden and spotting a mysterious grayish structure clinging to a tree branch—a wasp nest. It ...

We wanted to know what's inside a giant paper wasps nest. So we cast it in epoxy resin and then cut it in half with our 60,000 PSI waterjet to get a nice cross section of it. It turned out better ...

This is most likely the Paper Wasp, a common Texas pest. Beginning in spring, the queen wasp emerges from hibernation to build a fresh nest for the colony. The worker wasps join her in April and ...

Then I noticed my enemy. Perched on my rolled-up window stood an agitated wasp. She climbed up the window, buzzing. From my side eye, I guessed she was a paper wasp. My heart raced. What ought I do?

Nests can be found relatively close to the ground. They’re usually built between five and ten feet in the air, making them practically invisible to the human eye. At times, a nest in a tall tree ...

Panamanian paper wasp workers forsake their rights to reproduce for lives spent tending to the queen’s brood. Because nestmates are all genetically related, wasps preserve their own genetic legacy by ...

Coots are aquatic birds and rarely reuse nests. They usually fall apart ... Hiemstra and his colleagues wrote in the research paper. “Nature, too, is keeping score.” You can learn more about the nest ...

“After I got involved at SPARC, and saw how the city was valuing circular construction, I realized I needed to create a reuse innovation center in the New York City area to help make that possib ...

if you kill a queen shortly after she has built a nest, the colony will likely die since the queen is the only source of food at that time. It can be tricky to tell the difference between a queen wasp ...

“I try to reuse newspaper bags and other plastic bags ... and most people in the US probably don’t even get a daily paper.” Picking up poop gets less unpleasant when you’re ready with ...