On warm days through early fall, you can find two large species of “digger” wasps flitting about late-blooming flowers. Like many wasps, these species elicit strong, often negative, reactions in ...

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Cultivating bacteria in one's antennae might seem like an eccentric pastime for female beewolf digger wasps, Philanthus triangulum, but new research reveals that the insects grow the microbial crop to ...

Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, new research shows. Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to ...

Last summer a young man brought an insect to my office for identification. He told me he had witnessed this insect, a large wasp, kill a cicada. A bit hesitant to tell the story, he was not sure ...

We already know wasps are evil incarnate, but according to new research, they may yet have some redeeming features. Female beewolf digger wasps have colonies of symbiotic bacteria that inhabit their ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. On warm days through early fall, you can find two large species of “digger” wasps flitting about late-blooming flowers. Like many wasps, these species ...

Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, new research shows. Wasp mothers have stunning brainpower when it comes to feeding their young, new research shows. Digger ...