A study of the correlation between environmental variables such as latitude and body size in paper wasps (genus Polistes) by ...

Some types of wasps build large nests in inconvenient places, such as under awnings, above doorways, or inside sheds or ...

Their results were published earlier this year in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. The species of wasps that the team studied, Polistes dominulus, is a common ...

Yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps are all species of wasp that form nests in the spring and summer. Removing a wasp nest requires a professional pest control service. Wasps help ...

Types of nests vary between wasps. Some wasps build large, roughly cone-shaped nests of a paper-like material. Others build ...

The European hornet (Vespa crabro) made up 6%, while two rarer species were also found. Social wasps such as the hornets ... Hornets build large nests of a paper-like material made from chewed ...

It’s hard to think of a less popular insect than the yellowjacket, maligned because they can sting. First, I should be clear that “yellowjacket” is an imprecise, generic common name that conceals a ...

Louis Nastasi, doctoral student of entomology at Penn State and lead author on the paper, said now that the species have been properly identified, it opens the door for more research on the wasps ...