Wasps are some of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet, but you definitely do not want to harass them. Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, ...

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 ...

Wasps are often feared and respected for their ability to sting. Some species may become aggressive if closely approached or disturbed. Others will not sting people or animals until after direct ...

It's spring in England. The daffodils are in full bloom. A queen yellowjacket (Vespula) wasp emerges from your loft, dopey with hibernation and hungry for nectar. She starts to build a paper nest in ...

Paper wasps have a nasty reputation for their ability to deliver a painful sting multiple times, sometimes even in groups, but as a whole the species is beneficial to humans as predators of other ...

An analysis of 429 specimens belonging to 39 species representative of the diversity of Polistes in the Americas confirmed the inverse of Bergmann’s rule by pointing to larger body size for species ...