Heated defense To guard their nest from predatory hornets, the bees go into a defensive ... “the most exciting stuff is happening inside the tree,” he says. So in February 2019, Arndt received ...

Once the hornets tore off the diaspores, they carried them to other branches or to their nests, which they usually built on large, well-shaded branches near the trunk of the tree. The hornets only ...

Wasp Nests Now is a good time to take a close look for wasp nests around your home. They are getting large enough to be noticed but have not reached their peak size yet. Wasps can nest in a ...

Figuring out how to securely attach a radio tag to a hornet without harming it was a hurdle. After finding a nest in a tree, a team plugged the nest with foam, wrapped the tree in plastic and ...

"A single insect is a lot easier to deal with than a nest of 10 or 12 thousand angry worker hornets, which could be 30ft up in a tree," he said. John de Carteret Queens set up a smaller nest and ...