A high school teacher trying to solve the mystery of why queen Vespula wasps mate with many different males thinks the practice might have evolved to stave off a catastrophic colony collapse.

Wasps don't reuse old nests, opting instead to build new. They will, however, choose the same area or tree branch. When they ...

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.

The project captures queen hornets as they emerge from hibernation ... "Most likely, it will be a harmless queen wasp, but it is always a possibility, so we are keen to follow up every report." ...

Hornets are social wasps that build communal nests by chewing wood to create a thin, sticky pulp. Female hornets are aggressive, while males are docile and don’t have a stinger. Interestingly, each ...

Interestingly, each communal nest holds one queen that produces eggs. The other female working wasps don’t have fertile eggs. As cold weather starts, their behaviors change. However, it depends ...