If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...

Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps, a team of University of California, Davis, scientists has ...

Q: What can I use to spray my pine tree with? I have discovered ants, bees and wasps sitting or flying around the tree and when I put my hand on one of the branches, an ant attacked and bit me. Why ...

Discovering a line of ants brazenly wandering across your kitchen counters is not exactly a pleasant occurrence, and neither is spotting these insects parading up the trunk of your lemon tree. More ...

The ants, Azteca instabilis, have a natural history like that of many other ants. A queen establishes a colony in a tree, and once the colony reaches a certain size it splits and a satellite nest is ...

"Ants in a Tree" is the English translation of the Chinese name for this classic recipe. Built of spicy pork, bean thread noodles (aka cellophane noodles) and scallions, it earned its name because ...

Some tree-dwelling ants that were thought to eat other insects and animals actually look like plant-eaters when biologists analyzed nitrogen in their bodies. The study revealed the ants mostly eat ...

What's a wasp to do when ants are ruining its picnic? Pick the little pests up and airdrop them out of the way, according to a new study. That's the strategy of the common yellow jacket wasp when ...