This is having a huge ecosystem impact and the native birds have been declining.’ Adult wasps don’t eat the prey they kill - they feed it to their young, known as larvae. Social species capture ...

This mixture suffocates the wasps by clogging the pores they breathe through and quickly kills them. If the nest is out of reach, McAvoy says to knock it down with a broom and then to spray the ...

Wasps are intelligent and complex. But can you wait for them to die out? Wasps can be a deceptively tricky pest to deal with. While they can be great pollinators for the garden, if you’re ...

Shawna was an editor at The Scientist from 2017 through 2022. She holds a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Colorado College and a graduate certificate and science communication from the ...

which raises the temperature just enough to “bake” their enemy and kill it. Wasps were accidentally introduced into New Zealand just after the Second World War when some shipped aircraft parts ...

PEOPLE DOMESTICATED sheep and cattle, wheat and maize. Wasps domesticated viruses. And, just as domesticating other species helped human populations explode, so viral domestication assisted an ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture continues to wage war on emerald ash borer with the help of stingless wasps. This year the department released over 182,500 wasps in the Twin Cities metro ...

MDA The Minnesota Department of Agriculture Wednesday conducted the state’s first release of stingless wasps as a biological control in an effort to slow the spread of emerald ...