Extension Office horticulture specialist Amanda Weidner writes about insects that are your allies in the garden.

Pueblo County CSU-Extension Office. Thankfully, in this day and age many of us are working to make our yards more welcoming to pollinators, putting in flowering plants and offering water and ...

I tapped the lid and a wasp flew up my nose. I had to pinch my nose to kill ... "I pulled it out barehanded and it was a mud dauber. Though stings are rare, I found out It had definitely stung me when ...

What kind of wasps are in south-central Texas? San Antonio is home to yellow jackets and mud dauber wasps. Yellowjackets are the most common type of wasps in San Antonio, and they are the most ...

Perhaps most impressive are the mud-dauber wasps, which, while not technically using tails (insects have abdomens rather than true tails), employ their posterior sections to shape and smooth the ...

Now MIT researchers have developed a way to replace the wood with lightly treated mud. “What we’ve demonstrated is that we can essentially take the ground we’re standing on, or waste soil ...

Parasitoid wasps can exploit unsuitable hosts by laying eggs in them when another wasp species has already suppressed the host's immune system, enabling successful development of their offspring.