Kerala has long grappled with wild animal attacks, but now wasps and bees are also claiming lives. According to experts, wasp and bee sting can cause death due ... Last month, close to a dozen people, ...

Wasp stings were painful enough for people, but the brightly-coloured pests also had a devastating impact on our native species. “They kill lots of insects and feed on young, native birds in ...

Cicada killers do have a stinger, but it appears blunt by contrast. The tip of the abdomen is black and rounded. Sting behavior can also indicate the species. If you receive a painful sting from a ...

If you need to kill the colony, hire a professional or use a hornet spray. Spray the nest. Use a wasp and ... lots of people choose to get rid of them to avoid nuisance stings.

and three species of paper wasp. All have painful stings for humans and nasty effects on native species. “The harms are huge. They kill lots of insects and feed on young, native birds in nests. “They ...

Known for delivering one of the most painful stings in the insect world ... The larvae then transfer to humans where they burrow under the skin, causing painful boils. Though technically a spider and ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

they molt and the adult cicada will emerge, Cooley said. The males will begin to sing to garner the females' attention, Reall ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...