The most highly social animals form tightly knit colonies and include all ants and termites, some bees and wasps, and a few other organisms. Many social behaviors of animals are adaptive ...

It is called entomophobia which means an irrational and uncontrollable fear (phobia) of insects, usually a specific insect or group of insects (wasps and bees in your son's case). Not many people ...

the painfulness of a sting from one of seventy-eight carefully selected species of Hymenoptera – bees, ants, wasps, and the like to you and me. Schmidt worked out a scale running from zero to four, ...

These parasites are found throughout the social Hymenoptera (i.e., bees, wasps and ants), and have been most intensely studied in ants. The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to ...

The team saw a wide range of insects such as bees, wasps, beetles, flies, butterflies, moths, and even some arachnids. The findings are detailed in a study published March 4 in the journal Science ...

Pollinator species include wasps, ants, butterflies, beetles, moths and bees. There are more than 250 species of bee in the UK, including the honey bee that normally lives in hives that are managed by ...

Study subjects include diverse social insects and arthropods (bees, ants, wasps, termites, and social spiders), and Neotropical birds. He collects data mainly in the Neotropics but with additional ...

Bugs be gone! Discover seven smart and easy ways to keep bees and wasps away from your hummingbird feeders, without harming ...