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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...