Social wasps build nests from chewed wood fibers mixed with saliva, creating a durable, paper-like structure made up of tightly packed hexagonal cells. Each cell houses a developing wasp — starting as ...

When a queen wasp suddenly disappears, her colony doesn’t calmly choose a successor — it erupts into chaos. Researchers found that female wasps immediately begin battling for power, shattering the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock When a queen in a tropical paper wasp colony is lost, the rest do not smoothly install a successor. Instead, ...

The post When Wasps Lose Their Queen, a Secret Group Saves the Colony appeared first on A-Z Animals. For some species, war seems inevitable. When a community loses a powerful leader, it creates a ...

What happens when a leader suddenly disappears? In politics, business and other human organisations, leadership transitions can trigger intense power struggles. Rivals compete for control, alliances ...

An international team of scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences and other institutions has uncovered ...