Bees and wasps provide many ecological services, including pollinating and feeding on garden pests such as caterpillars. But now that chilly days have arrived in most of the Southeast, you may wonder ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PITTSFORD, N.Y. (WROC) — Before those temperatures start to get a little bit too cold, plants use this time of year to soak up ...

At this time of year, you might notice an uptick in buzzing visitors around your patio, compost pile or refuse bins. The striped yellow, orange and black pollinators we laud in spring and summer seem ...

IT IS a beautiful, sunny day. The smell of a barbecue is in the air and a bee is bumbling from flower to flower. Everything feels perfect. Then a wasp appears, stirring up rather different feelings: ...

Knowing your winged and stinging insects is pretty important for homeowners, both so they can better understand the biodiversity on their property and so that they know which insects pose danger to ...

A few wasps near the patio. One buzzing past at a barbecue. That’s easy to brush off. But those small moments can point to a much larger issue already forming nearby.

That matters beyond the insects themselves. Bees and wasps help support pollination and other ecological interactions. If warming shifts their timing and weakens their body condition, the effects may ...

There’s nothing as refreshing as a dip in the pool on a hot summer day. But your relaxing swim can quickly turn hectic when wasps, bees and other pests swarm around your pool. Want to keep the pests ...