“Unlike honey bees, their stingers are not barbed ... Only do this if it’s a small nest and the wasps aren’t aggressive. A store-bought aerosol spray that’s intended to kill wasps or ...

Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary ... to house the rising numbers of insects in the colony. Some species' nests are large and elaborate, whereas others are small and compact.

Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ...

According to a small 2015 study ... such as honey bees, will die after they sting, while wasps can sting more than once. While both insects will defend their nest if threatened, wasps tend ...

While their contribution to pollination may not be as substantial as bees’, wasps still play a valuable ... emerge when the weather warms up. These female wasps begin to form new colonies. After ...

Bees evolved from wasps and they still look a lot like them ... provisioning their simple nests with a taffy-like mixture of nectar and pollen known as “bee bread.” Look closely at the ...