“For queen bumblebees, who seek pre-made spots to start colonies, there’s nothing cozier than an abandoned mouse or squirrel ...

Nature can be pretty metal when it wants, and a testament to this is the recent discovery that bees sometimes use hollowed ...

About 20,000 years ago, a family of owls lived in a cave. Sometimes, they would cough up owl pellets containing the bones of their prey, which landed ...

This story originally appeared in the Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007 edition of the Lassen County Times. Honeybees have made it through the last 20 million years in a changing world ...

Honey bees survive by eating the honey they’ve stored up over the past year. Many beekeepers augment their bees’ food by ...

I spotted this creature at Killygarvan graveyard, Rathmullan, Co Donegal in July – a toad – but it doesn’t match the pictures ...

The vibrant return of spring is something we all look forward to, but it is often spoiled by the return of various pests. None is quite so unwelcome as the wasp. While they are often mistakenly ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need to crawl inside and die in order for the fruit to grow. But are there ...

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 ...

At least two different populations of a parasitic wasp native to Europe have been found on opposite coasts of North America. But no one knows how they got there. Reading time 3 minutes There are all ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A previously unidentified species of invasive parasitic wasps is now ...