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It’s a tricky calculus. One parasitic wasp sourced from lanternflies in China has already been excluded from further research ...
What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...
It was a beautiful warm day and I was working on my tomatoes. I realized they had been exposed to too much sunshine and ...
Jeanne Howell was raised to be a hornet collector. Her father, Tom Howell, started collecting hornets in Cottage Grove after ...
For the past few weeks, in between raindrops, I have been trying to paint the lower part of our house. When I removed the shutters, I found a small community of wasps, spiders and other insects.
Don't let wasps ruin your outdoor time. Here’s what to do if you see wasps in or around your home and how to keep wasps away ...
With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...
Curious about why - and how - you should attract beneficial insects to the garden? Learn how in this post. As any gardener ...
Our hornets – and all our other social wasps – have much more yellow on their bodies, and are easily differentiated by that. The nests are made of paper and are found in a variety of situations.
How to tell the difference between yellow jackets, bald-faced hornets and paper wasps. All three species are under the category of social wasps that produce colonies each year with only the malted ...
Wasps and hornets are sometimes called yellowjackets, but these are another species of wasps that usually build a nest in the ground or walls and attics of buildings. European hornets.