New Hampshire honey bees and wasps are featured fighting in a slow-motion film just released to help bring attention to the plight of the honey bee. "Apocrita: a bee film" was produced by New ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WROC) — Before those temperatures start to get a little bit too cold, plants use this time of year to soak up ...

With summer comes warm weather, beach trips and those pesky flying insects that can cause a lot of problems. Hornets, wasps and bees can cause damage, create nests and swarm residents and pets when ...

They are both nest-building social insects, but paper wasps and honey bees organize their colonies in very different ways. In a new study, researchers report that despite their differences, these ...

Wasps, hornets, yellowjackets, and bees all have a lot in common, but there are plenty of ways to tell the difference between them. If you’re not sure what’s causing that constant buzzing out in your ...

To understand winter survival, you first need to know that bees and wasps fall into two big groups. Social species live in large colonies with a single queen and many workers, while solitary species ...

Did you notice a few unwelcome guests trying to steal a sip from your soda can at your Labor Day picnics last weekend? In late August/early September, bees and wasps are highly visible, more ...

Stinging insects, such as bees, wasps and hornets, can become quite active in the fall season, as they begin to prepare for winter. Two large nests were recently removed from areas of Staten Island. A ...