Similarly, black wasps make nests. Contrary to yellow jackets or paper wasps, the great black wasp drills their nest in the ground. They are generally solitary wasps who do not construct massive ...

Paper wasps (Polistes spp.) are slender with long legs (1/2 to 1 inch long ... have the following characteristics: Range in size from less than 1/2 to 1 inch. Very fuzzy in appearance. Most species ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

New research has found an insect species with markings that are so black that they’re ‘superblack ... As they write in their paper, these structural colors “are formed in nature by ...

In another significant study, the Nearctic oak cynipid gall wasp genus Druon was re-established, introducing five new species and revising the classification of several others previously placed in ...

Eucalyptus gall wasps ... These invasive species not only threaten the health of eucalyptus trees but also pose economic risks to industries reliant on these crops, such as paper and pulp production.

Identification of this insect is fairly easy just judging on size alone. The adults range in size from 1½ to 1¾ inches in length for females and about 1 to 1¼ inches for males. Both sexes are ...

A proposed bioconversion system effectively transforms plastic waste into biochar, addressing environmental challenges and ...

Terminology U.S. Black population or total Black population refers to the population of Americans who self-identify as Black in the United States. This includes those who say their race is only Black ...

IT is a low-key intuition, not spiteful or malicious, but pervasive: in the minds of most Americans the incoming Nixon Administration seems to represent the comeback of the Wasp: the white Anglo ...

The problem of invasive species is recognized as a significant threat to everything from global biodiversity to maintaining healthy fields and forests ...

The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.