While paper wasp nests are a similar color to certain hornets' nests, the shape is quite different, as is the way they receive insulation for the structure.

ANN ARBOR--A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the ...

Yellow jackets, paper wasps and hornets like to scavenge for protein and sugary carbohydrates. The best defense is making ...

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Routine radiation checks at South Carolina's Savannah River Site turned up 4 radioactive wasp nests near liquid nuclear waste ...

It can be difficult to tell the difference between black-and-yellow striped wasps in your yard — especially when getting close to them might mean a painful altercation. For that reason, you might want ...

Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of ...

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 ...

If you're looking to deter pesky wasps from ruining outdoor fun, there might be an easier, eco-friendly solution than ...

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 ...