What makes a slight skin prick, administered by a bee or a wasp, turn into a life-threatening emergency?

IT IS a beautiful, sunny day. The smell of a barbecue is in the air and a bee is bumbling from flower to flower. Everything feels perfect. Then a wasp appears, stirring up rather different feelings: ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

The springtime brings warmer weather, blooming flowers, and the desire to spend more time outdoors. But spring also means stinging insects like wasps and bees wake up from their winter hibernation.

At first glance, the hexagonal cells build by honey bees and social wasps may seem similar, but they are significantly different. Honey bees build using wax, whereas wasps use paper. Honey bees build ...

I have only once in adulthood been stung (on my right wrist) by a wasp. Three years ago. It wouldn’t go away and had finally ...

I'm 27 years old. There are a big fatty bee, and a couple of his/her smaller bee groupies hanging out on my 8x6 deck with me right now. They fly close every once in a while, and I kind of lean away ...

Birds of prey are typically known for preying on mammals, reptiles, or even smaller birds; the honey buzzard is different. In ...