It's fall. The leaves are changing, the days are getting cooler and... are the insects really bad? If you've noticed an uptick in activity and general annoyance from insects of a stinging variety – ...

It’s been a cold and snowy winter, but we’ve made it, and Wednesday is the first day spring! A season for new life — and not just plants. Hornet, wasp and yellow jacket queens will be waking up soon ...

There's a reason the age-old expression "Stepping into a hornet's nest" carries such strong connotation. "It's the fear of being stung that leaves so many people associating this group of insects with ...

During the Fall months, cool and dry conditions prompt visits to local pumpkin patches, corn mazes, festivals, and football games. However, the Fall months are when flying insects like hornets and ...

As a curator for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Bees and Wasps of Texas Project on iNaturalist.org, Paul interacts with folks submitting pictures for identification. Some are very ...

It’s summertime – the season of surf and sand, swimming pools, picnics, camping, outdoor sports - and the season ofstinging insects. Bees, wasps, yellow jackets, mosquitoes and hornets can take the ...

It’s yellow jacket and wasp season and they seem to be particularly annoying this year. Even the firefighters out on the wildfire lines are being painfully plagued by them. Yellow jackets seem to be ...

Question: My patio is being overrun with yellow jacket bees. I want to find the nest and spray them, but a friend said they are beneficial insects. Are they really doing good for my garden, or can I ...

Matthew Shepherd from The Xerces Society / Submitted photoLandscapes that are friendly to pollinators such as bumblebees will be a popular garden trend in 2015, according to the Garden Media Group. At ...

C The state is abuzz with a story that Hurricane Bob riled up hordes of stinging wasps and yellow jackets. The hurricane, however, appears to have been only partly to blame for what some hospital ...