In late summer, we often see bees, hornets and wasps and their nests. Let’s look at some you’re likely to see in and around your backyard. Honeybees are about 5/8 of an inch long, orangish brown, ...

Photo courtesy of CAES NewsUniversity of Georgia Cooperative Extension experts suggest thinking twice before spraying pesticides to control ground-nesting bees. Bumblebees and other native bees are ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Bees: Love them or hate them, they play an important role in our global ecosystem, in our economy and even in our backyards. But do they deserve the bad wrap they receive ...

I'm frequently asked how to keep bees away. But that's often not what people really should do. Many people call all stinging insects bees, but that blurs distinctions among a number of kinds of insect ...

Wasps, often confused with bees, are misunderstood pollinators that can be both beneficial and bad. If you’ve ever come across a papery structure in your attic or had a small hole in your backyard ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RAYTOWN, Mo. — Un-BEE-lievable — there’s a ...

Identification of a large group of parasitoid wasps occurring in the African and Madagascan region is now easy to achieve with freely available online resources The paper also provides an overview of ...

As summer ends, many people notice an increase in flying insects. Some of them are harmless, while others can sting or bite. One insect notorious for stinging people is the wasp. While these flying ...

As high temperatures persist across parts of California, you may have noticed an uptick of stinging insects zipping around your property. Wasp season is typically between March and November but the ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – About 70% of the world’s crop production depends on pollinator insects, making it important to know how many pollinators are out there. The University of Florida Institute of Food ...