Examples of social bees and wasps that can give homeowners problems include honey bees, bumble bees, yellowjackets, paper wasps, and hornets. These insects are covered in Purdue Extension publication ...

Hornets and bees are both feared insects for their painful stings. Both are quick-flying, hive-building insects that work ...

Most people won't be surprised that bumble bees and ground-nesting wasp colonies have queens. What is surprising, though, is that those big bees and wasps we see in the spring are the queens—not ...

Baldfaced hornets are large, black insects, about 7/8 of an inch long with white to cream-colored markings (not quite yellow) on the front of the head and at the end of the abdomen. Bumble bees are ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

Yes, they will sting to defend themselves and their nest similar to most other stinging wasps and bees. Bumble bees, are much less likely to sting than hornets, yellow jackets or honeybees.

Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers ...

WSDA's hornet eradication team wore special protective gear when removing hornets from a nest in 2020. Left to right: Chris Looney, Cassie Cichorz, Sven Spichiger and Rian Wojahn.

Jeremy Pearce has used his industrial design skills to create a trap which does not catch wasps or bumble bees, but traps hornets alive. By Tony Whitfield. 17:01, Sat, Aug 31, 2024.

But it's not only bumble bees getting slowly eaten alive. Bee flies eat the eggs of other insects, like wasps and grasshoppers. So if you happen to be missing any of these insects in your garden ...