The first new species is Idris bianor, named after the spider genus it parasitizes, according to the study. Its body length is just 0.02 to 0.03 inches long, researchers said, and its body is light ...

Jeanne Howell was raised to be a hornet collector. Her father, Tom Howell, started collecting hornets in Cottage Grove after ...

While most people picture the beloved honeybee when they think about bees, North America actually has 4,000 species of native ...

Being outside in spring and summer is terrific, but it does come with the risk of bee and wasp stings. It is important to ...

Africanized honey bees, often called "killer bees," are now in 13 states, including Mississippi. Know where to find them, how ...

Africanized honey bees, often referred to as "killer bees," are now found in 13 states and are slowly spreading northward.

For the past few weeks, in between raindrops, I have been trying to paint the lower part of our house. When I removed the shutters, I found a small community of wasps, spiders and other insects.

Highly aggressive Africanized honey bees, the so-called "killer bees," are moving north and spreading as climate change ...

I work with paper wasps, a type of social insect that builds nests shaped like upside down umbrellas. Wasps do a lot more than we give them credit for, including pollination! They even eat common pest ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

How can you tell the difference between a wasp vs a bee? Use this guide to know whether it's a bee or wasp buzzing through ...

With about 600 different species of bees in Washington, you would think it would be easy to spot one. But that black and yellow insect you see quickly darting from flower to flower could just as easil ...