A Derbyshire council is set to permanently scrap its pest control service because it cannot afford to continue running it ...

A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that ...

Ben McCarthy, the trust’s head of nature conservation and restoration ecology, described the year’s weather as swinging from ...

Honey bees, wasps, field wasps and hornets gather at ... Although they are absolute dwarves compared to the hornets, they are not at all shy about nipping them in the legs or spraying them with ...

A Derbyshire council is set to permanently scrap its pest control service because it cannot afford to continue running it ...

They’re wasps, some of which are wingless ... “They looked both on top and inside to try to see what the whole story was.” Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are ...

The cherished annual bird survey has included Manhattan’s largest public space since the very first count on Christmas Day, ...

Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg, 32, has been sentenced to a community payback order with one year of ...

Wales scrum-half Tomos Williams has been hailed as 'the signing of the season' by three England internationals.

The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...

Atkinson, 22, stands at 6ft 2in tall, weighs close to 100kg (15st 11lb) and is said to be a deceptively hard hitter ...