Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Mulholland/Getty Images Coming across a potential wasp nest can be unsettling, particularly if you don't know whether it ...

Finding any type of stinging insect in or around your home can set off the alarm bells. A lot of them have nests that look alike and are easy to misidentify, but knowing which insect has moved into ...

It can be difficult to tell the difference between black-and-yellow striped wasps in your yard — especially when getting close to them might mean a painful altercation. For that reason, you might want ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paper wasps build their nests by turning wood into paper. Getting rid of paper wasps early prevents painful stings, allergic ...

Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to a University of ...

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Paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have an impressive capacity to learn, remember, and make social distinctions about others, researchers report. Elizabeth Tibbetts, evolutionary biologist at the ...

On a muggy spring night in 2016, the chemist Bernd Schöllhorn was tromping alone through a forest in northern Vietnam. Into the inky darkness, he raised a black light—and saw an extraordinarily bright ...

In a series of studies over more than 20 years, evolutionary biologists have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have an impressive capacity to learn, remember and make social ...

Coming across a potential wasp nest can be unsettling, particularly if you don't know whether it poses any danger to you and your family. Social wasps are among the most aggressive species, and these ...