SIR JOHN LUBBOCK, in a paper on the Social Hymenoptera (Bees, Wasps, and Ants), especially with reference to their habits, senses, and power of communication with one another, pointed out with ...

Bees, wasps, and ants belong to the order Hymenoptera. Bees feed on flowers; wasps hunt other insects; ants "feed on a whole variety of things," from flowers to dead animals, says University of ...

Though both belong to the same insect species (Hymenoptera), they're very different insects. Their appearances are different—while bees are plumper and fuzzy, wasps are longer and smooth.

Dr Gavin Broad, Senior Curator of Hymenoptera, explains the gruesome phenomenon. The inside of a chrysalis: dark, sleepy, undisturbed. Or so you would think. In reality, it's a hiding place that is ...

Scientists have found ways to remotely detect the sound of invasive Asian hornets hovering outside beehives in a move that ...

Jersey and the UK throughout the hornet’s active season. Eaten prey included a wide range of bees, wasps, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths and spiders. Although the European honey bee was the ...

This reproductive behavior is exhibited by all wasps in the Ampulex genus, including the new cockroach wasp species Ampulex fronticarinalis, researchers said. The fronticarinalis cockroach wasp has a ...

She runs a lab focused on molecular systematics and evolution of Hymenoptera (bees, ants, and wasps). She is also the curator of UCF's Bug Closet. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Asian hornets, which are twice the size of a wasp, can eat up to 50 bees in a day and their nests are destroyed as soon as they are discovered to prevent them wiping out native pollinators. They have ...