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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

Bees, Wasps, Ants and Allied Insects of the British Isles. By Edward Step. (The Wayside and Woodland Series.) Pp. xxv + 238 + 111 plates. (London and New York ...

European wasps which have "particularly painful stings" are invading the UK - due to a change in our weather. As August has been, and is expected to remain, windy both here and in parts of Central ...

Darwin wasps were thought to prefer temperate areas. ... For comparison, the British Isles have 109 known pimpline species, and wasp diversity there has been sampled much more than in Brazil.

One night I read an article about British ancestral homes whose priceless tapestries were being munched to bits. Their guardians had turned to tiny parasitic wasps called Trichogramma, which ...