Ants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets and paper wasps, a team of University of California, Davis, scientists has ...

Q: What can I use to spray my pine tree with? I have discovered ants, bees and wasps sitting or flying around the tree and when I put my hand on one of the branches, an ant attacked and bit me. Why ...

Discovering a line of ants brazenly wandering across your kitchen counters is not exactly a pleasant occurrence, and neither is spotting these insects parading up the trunk of your lemon tree. More ...

The ants, Azteca instabilis, have a natural history like that of many other ants. A queen establishes a colony in a tree, and once the colony reaches a certain size it splits and a satellite nest is ...

What's a wasp to do when ants are ruining its picnic? Pick the little pests up and airdrop them out of the way, according to a new study. That's the strategy of the common yellow jacket wasp when ...

If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...

Some tree-dwelling ants that were thought to eat other insects and animals actually look like plant-eaters when biologists analyzed nitrogen in their bodies. The study revealed the ants mostly eat ...

Canopy-dwelling ants in the tropical forests of the Americas have adopted a neat way of averting disaster should they fall from their perch. They glide to safety, steering towards their home trunk ...

Ten years ago, a major portion of a mature maple tree in our side yard broke off unexpectedly. This year, I decided to have the tree taken down and the stump ground since it might topple unexpectedly ...