This Week Outdoors: The fruit on mulberry trees is at the peak of ripeness, attracting large numbers and wide varieties of fruit-eating birds. Q: Can you tell us what's going on with wasps in our area ...

The giant ichneumon wasp, megarhyssa rixator, has an unusual method for laying eggs. Using her overly-long ovipositor to drill deep into a tree trunk, she deposits a single egg on to the surface of an ...

A superwasp able to produce 1,000 offspring is threatening vast forests in North America, a new study has revealed. The Sirex woodwasp (Sirex noctilio) lays its eggs on pine trees in a mucus and a ...

Q: I have heard that some species of wasps and bees can damage my house. Is that true? A: Yes! The threat to our homes is not as common as with termites and carpenter ants, but we do have species of ...

In order to find out about its migrations, various research centres in South Africa, Sweden, Canada, Chile, Australia, Spain, Argentina and Switzerland have conducted research detailing its routes and ...

If you're seeing more than a few wasps near your house, here's how to get rid of them and keep them away.

Summer calls for at-home barbecues, gardening and lounging by the pool — all of which become unpleasant when wasps are around. Wasps tend to build nests in sheltered areas like inside trees, under ...

A BRAIN-boring robot that burrows its way through tissue in the same way a wasp digs through wood could make keyhole surgery safer. The female wood wasps of the Siricidae family use a needle-like ...

While looking for new insect fossils, paleontologist Bruce Archibald of the Royal British Columbia (BC) Museum was able to find an ancient giant wasp at the BC's southern interior. Archibald, who was ...

The wood wasp is one of the great enemies of the trees in the Pinus family. It originated in Eurasia and from there has spread since the beginning of the 20th century to Australia, South America and ...