Without wasps, the world could be overrun with spiders and insects. Each summer, social wasps in the UK capture an estimated 14 million kilogrammes of insect prey, such as caterpillars and greenfly.

The insect of the year 2025 helps foresters combat the pest known as the wood wasp. This insect, which bears some resemblance to a hornet, lays eggs in both live and freshly cut trees, leading to ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Officials are asking that a new wasp be deployed throughout the state ... s needed to get state and federal permits for the new insect’s release. Erythrina gall wasps, mostly yellow, 6- to ...

Parasitoid wasps, belonging to the family Hymenoptera, deprive their insect and spider hosts of nutrition. These wasps represent approximately 20% of the 1 million insect species on Earth ...

They are the young pretenders while wasps are the granddaddies of the insect world. There are a staggering 150,000 species of wasp and only a tiny, tiny minority cause us trouble. In the UK it is ...

The wasps, when released ... which infects the borer with a hostile fungus — is effective at killing the bugs, but only as a contact spray, meaning it has to be used just at the right time ...