Washington's pollinators are critical to our state’s agriculture and can sometimes be used to help degraded ecosystems.

Climate change could be helping the flesh-eating screwworm fly spread, undoing decades of progress — and the USDA isn’t doing ...

Rise of the Zombie Bugs, by Mindy Weisberger, is a non-fiction book that borrows from popular culture to make one of the most ...

The second half of May is peak season for one of the Vineyard’s most interesting bees, Colletes thoracicus, sometimes called ...

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans.

INSECTS do not usually give us humans too much concern. However, if one studies even a tiny bit of natural history topics ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — On the eighth annual “World Bee Day,” the bees did not seem bothered. They should be.

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among ... although not identical behavior has been observed among living parasitoid wasp species. For example, a group of wasps known as ...

The species likely used its unique apparatus to trap its hosts, scientists said. An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

Researchers from the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) have discovered a new parasitic wasp species, Ceraphron initium, in Nagaland, and four other species in the Western Ghats. These findings ...