Has your garden been swarmed by an unusually high number of wasps this summer? You may not be alone.Seirian Sumner, professor of behavioural ecology at UCL, said the summer heat and dry conditions in ...

Huge surge in wasp swarms is set to plague British homes this summer… here’s how to keep YOURS safe. With the warm summer temperatures, the problem of wasps infestations shows no sign of going ...

Typically, the British wasp hysteria season peaks around August bank holiday, when we’re squeezing the last alfresco dining out of summer. Inevitably, along comes a yellowjacket wasp or two. The media ...

Bees and Wasps in Britain Have Been Disappearing For More Than a Century Changes in agricultural practices since the 19th century may be a major culprit in the pollinators’ decline ...

The wasps – Trichogramma evanescens – measure about 0.5 millimeters and are barely visible to humans. They will search out moth eggs and lay their own eggs inside them, so a new wasp hatches ...

Empty of human visitors because of lockdowns, the darkened rooms of Britain’s historic buildings have gained thousands of unwelcome residents over the past 11 months: moths that infest closets ...

In his 1868 book British Social Wasps, physician and amateur entomologist Edward Latham Ormerod acknowledges the predatory role of wasps in ecosystems, but his call to quantify their impact ...

An army of tiny, parasitic wasps will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born, in order to hunt out and eradicate moths that threaten the mansion’s furniture and ...

"We first found the wasp [in B.C.] in 2019," said Abrams, describing the parasitic samurai wasp as a "potential biological control agent" that's been used to fight off stink bugs in other countries.