If you find a paper wasp nest near your home, what you should do next is largely dependent on its location, size, and the ...

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 ...

Finding a wasp nest nestled under the eaves of your house is more than a nuisance. An encounter with certain species of these prolific winged insects can result in a painful sting. It could be worse ...

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 ...

Larvae of some paper wasp species use mysteriously fluorescent silk to weave the container in which they mature to adulthood. By Cara Giaimo Adult paper wasps are capable builders, painstakingly mouth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding a wasp nest nestled under the eaves of your house is more than a nuisance. An encounter with certain species of these ...