Explore the intricate design of a giant paper wasp nest as we cast it in epoxy resin and cut it in half using a 60,000 PSI ...

Pictured here is a red paper wasp, one of 22 species of paper wasps known to exist in North America. Paper wasps are so called because they build paper nests. I once observed one carefully cutting ...

After 40 years in the RV park business, Teri Blaschki has learned to live with and even love paper wasps, stings and all. “I’ve been stung by them many, many times. It’s just what they do,” said ...

In a series of studies over more than 20 years, evolutionary biologists have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have an impressive capacity to learn, remember and make social ...

Wasps provide crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at neighboring nests, according to new research. Wasps provide crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at ...

On a muggy spring night in 2016, the chemist Bernd Schöllhorn was tromping alone through a forest in northern Vietnam. Into the inky darkness, he raised a black light—and saw an extraordinarily bright ...

Alias: Paper wasps are about half an inch to three-quarters of an inch long, smooth and banded with black and yellow. These pests seem to be more prevalent during the late summer and fall months of ...

In terms of popularity, wasps sit somewhere between house centipedes and mosquitos in regards to universal desire for their demise — so the prospect that they can identify faces is pretty horrifying.

You may have an ally in your garden and not even realize it. Right this very minute, paper wasps are likely on patrol in your garden constantly looking for insects to hunt down and kill. The purpose ...