If you do spot a hummingbird seemingly preying on wasps or bees, chances are that it's accidental due to the fact all three species feast on nectar and are probably competing for food. Read more ...

Where wasps are hunters and scavengers ... But the vast majority of the world’s 20,000 bee species are solitary creatures, provisioning their simple nests with a taffy-like mixture of nectar ...

The European hornet (Vespa crabro) made up 6%, while two rarer species were also found. Social wasps such as the hornets and yellow-jackets live in colonies similar to those of honey bees and ants ...

There are 7,000 species of wasps living in the UK, nine of which build nests to house a colony. Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to ...