They work as hard as bees to pollinate our plants, often look and sound like bees but have no sting – yet hoverflies remain ...

“Wasp population dynamics tend to be cyclical, so a low year is followed by a high year – and this year the stars have ...

Aucklanders who feel like they have been dealing with more wasps are not imagining it. An ecology professor said a long, dry ...

A long, dry summer has led to “extremely high” numbers of wasps around the country – and Kiwis are being warned not to attack ...

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

Ever wondered what footballers and Batman have in common with hoverflies? Well, it’s all in the name. Both have lent their ...

The Asian hornets: these dangerous and extremely invasive predators weaken European ecosystems by preying on bees and other ...

As warm spring breezes pull us out of our winter blur in many parts of the country, we’re soaking in the sound of peep-peeps ...

The effects of forest fragmentation on tree-hole nesting solitary wasps and bees were investigated at a site 90 km north of Manaus, Brazil. Wasp and bee faunas were monitored in continuous terra firme ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...