Are your trees dripping a sticky goo? The reason is that trees are often infested with aphids, scale or other insects that ...

Matthew Taylor is a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier in Longmont, Colorado. He says this time of year, wasps like to build ...

A swarm of destructive wasp-like insects is spreading fast, and it could mean bad news for pine trees, holiday traditions, and your backyard.

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

Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

What can a tiny wasp with a rather gruesome parasitic life cycle teach us about evolution, behavior and human developmental ...

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

A new study finds that people afraid of spiders perceive them as larger than they really are, while arachnology experts judge their size accurately. The findings shed light on how emotion and ...

Last week was National Pollinator Week, which celebrates the importance of insects, birds and other animals that pollinate ...

Hornets and bees are both feared insects for their painful stings. Both are quick-flying, hive-building insects that work ...

The first new species is Idris bianor, named after the spider genus it parasitizes, according to the study. Its body length ...

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