A 9-foot statue of a wasp recently installed outside the state’s new North Valley Complex building in Wilsonville hopes to ...

When it comes to stinging insects, wasps are some of the most feared creatures out there. Unlike honeybees, which can only sting once, most wasps can sting multiple times, injecting painful venom with ...

Wasps are also just important in the environment. Social wasps are predators and as such they play a vital ecological role, controlling the numbers of potential pests like greenfly and many ...

Yellow jackets, or predatory social wasps, feed on pests and can be helpful for a garden’s growth. They can make homeowners’ lives miserable, though, especially when they nest within house siding.

Some species have wings in an intense shade of bright orange, a typical danger sign to would-be predators. This is known as an aposematic signal. Stinging is the wasp's main defence. These insects ...

Our wasp expert Dr Gavin Broad, says, ‘Wasps are generally apex predators - so if they’re not doing well, it indicates that there is something wrong with the world.’ Wasps are hugely beneficial to ...

Many insects are life-history omnivores, which means that they act as herbivores during one stage of their life, then as predators during another. For example, most parasitoid wasps feed upon ...