These paper wasps are around an inch long with slender, narrow waists. Their bodies are a rusty red coloring all over, except for their wings, which are a smoky black. There are two species of red ...

To distill the secret behind this metabolic mastery, study co-author and zoologist Dorothée Huchon led a hunt for genetic ...

If you were asked to select five insects that have most profoundly altered humanity since Homo sapiens first fashioned tools ...

Conservationists credit a species of parasitoid wasp for keeping Wilkins’ Bunting birds alive Brian Anthony Hernandez, who has nearly 20 years of journalism experience, joined PEOPLE as a writer ...

The species, which is found in other parts of Britain, is found in a Manx quarry for the first time.

A new study shows that rapid loss of forests has prompted a colour change in stoneflies, caused by a genetic mutation. This ...

Oct. 22, 2024 — Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named, thanks to new research. The study nearly doubles the number of known species in ... Simulated Mission to Mars ...

The Waldringfield Wasps team of Archie Penn, Cameron Harris, Connor Line, Hattie Collingridge and Matt Taylor took the last bullet and with it the British Keelboat League 2024 title. Second and third ...

The American singer Beyonce is the inspiration behind the naming of the horse fly Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae. Because of ...

What are oak gall wasps? Oaks, especially the native species Quercus robur and Q. petraea are the host plants for more than 70 species of cynipid gall wasp. It is the larval stage of these insects ...

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby was briefly upstaged by a wasp Thursday that got caught ... prompting him to swat at his neck and identify it as a "bug." But moments later he was ...