John Horsley was gardening when he felt a wasp crawl down his T-shirt. "That stung me a few times in the back," he says. "It wasn't a pleasant experience." Part of the British Pest Control Association ...

August is wasp season, when people get up close with Vespula vulgaris, the common wasp. Vespa, meaning wasp in Italian, is a name shared with the fashionable moped with its high-pitched engine buzz ...

There are over 100,000 species of wasps, each with different habits and life cycles. Wasps are important pollinators and help control harmful insects that destroy food crops. Drones or worker wasps ...

Summer calls for at-home barbecues, gardening and lounging by the pool — all of which become unpleasant when wasps are around. Wasps tend to build nests in sheltered areas like inside trees, under ...

...and other things you should know about the flying insect we love to hate. By Ed Power Nothing takes the gloss off these precious last sunny days quite like a deluge of wasps. This year, they seem ...

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