It can be difficult to tell the difference between black-and-yellow striped wasps in your yard — especially when getting close to them might mean a painful altercation. For that reason, you might want ...

Wasps are some of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet, but you definitely do not want to harass them. Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, ...

Pictured here is a red paper wasp, one of 22 species of paper wasps known to exist in North America. Paper wasps are so called because they build paper nests. I once observed one carefully cutting ...

Paper wasps have a nasty reputation for their ability to deliver a painful sting multiple times, sometimes even in groups, but as a whole the species is beneficial to humans as predators of other ...