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 ...

The small yellow flowers of dill attract predatory insects such as ladybugs, lacewings, and parasitic wasps. These insects ...

Researchers have built microdrones, capable of tugging open a door 40 times their weight, by studying the biology of predatory wasps. Robotics researchers at Stanford University and École ...

The Nebraska Extension held a Crop Production Clinic on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at the UNL Panhandle Research Extension and ...

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

In a field experiment, scientists compared two groups of insects with different diets and discovered a food-chain reaction.

likely shaping their respective anti-predatory strategies. Additionally, females search for hosts (typically the pupae of bees and other wasps) and are more likely to encounter defending adults at ...

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 ...

Monarch butterflies are important to a healthy ecosystem, but their existence in your garden is threatened by an all-too-familiar predator: wasps. While wasps are also important to the natural ...