Villages, often separated from larger towns and cities, consist of clusters of households and a few public buildings. Despite ...

G round cover plants can be a blessing or an absolute nightmare. They seem so dainty and delicate in the nursery: compact, ...

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

The majority of insects are considered beneficial or harmless. Of course, those are the ones we want to have hanging around.

What comes to mind when you think of beneficial insects in your yard? Observant gardeners will often name one of the ...

A new study shows that a mother digger wasp(Ammophila pubescens) can remember the locations and feeding history of up to nine ...

For the past few weeks, in between raindrops, I have been trying to paint the lower part of our house. When I removed the shutters, I found a small community of wasps, spiders and other insects.

Four species of Eumeninae were recorded as hosts to five species of parasitic insects (Table I). The first nest of Cyphomenes anisitsii (Brèthes, 1906) was collected in January 2009, measuring 1,7 cm ...

List of Darwin wasp species erroneously reported for Brazil Anomaloninae 1. Ophionellus imitatorius (Blanchard, 1942) 2. Podogaster cactorum Cushman, 1927 Banchinae 3. Meniscomorpha lopezi (Blanchard, ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...

Key Points Wasps are drawn to your yard by any food and drink containing sugar or protein. They like to build their nests in sheltered spaces, often close to the house. Get rid of wasps by ...