Drapeau Picard doesn’t want you to swat at or kill wasps, but rather learn to live with them.
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“Once a worker finds food, it takes it back to the nest to recruit the other ants,” says Eric Benson, PhD. “It will lay down a pheromone trail that the other ants can follow back to the food source.” ...
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Why Wasps Are Useful

Few people are likely pleased when wasps join them. They nibble on food uninvited, buzz close to the body, and sting if they perceive us as a threat. No, wasps are truly bothersome—at least to humans.
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When people imagine what nature looks like, this probably wouldn’t be it. On an overcast afternoon in August, I stood next to a strip of plants between the sidewalk and the street in Central Brooklyn, ...
Humans are animal chauvinists: we like our insects pretty. As fall arrives, the monarch butterfly and praying mantids may ...
I recently found and killed a yellow-and-black mud dauber wasp that was very docile because I didn't realize mud daubers are non-aggressive. When left alone, these wasps only use their stingers to ...
If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...
Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of ...
The program involves releasing special species of wasps to target the invasive emerald ash borer, a pest that has been wreaking havoc on ash trees across the state since 2009. These small wasps target ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Birds In Helping Hands has rescued several chicks, including great blue herons, from 7 nests that were cut down by tree trimming companies in the past week in Pinellas County, ...