Dohr, Germany Info from Licensor: "Watching activity at paper wasp nest. I am Lothar Lenz, a nature photographer with heart and soul, and I am lucky enough to live in a small cul-de-sac village in the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of a hot super-Neptune exoplanet ...

On the afternoon of February 13, 2024, a violent storm swept through the Riverina region of southern NSW and ravaged a string ...

We're so accustomed to seeing the non-native European paper wasp, Polistes dominula, that it's quite a surprise to encounter a native, the golden paper wasp, P. aurifer, and especially in the winter.

"Our paper is one of the first ones to show, at least in Drosophila, that this type of immune response might be a common mechanism by which natural enemies like wasps and nematodes are dealt with.

Insects don’t disappear come winter and miraculously reappear come spring. Like most things in nature, evolution has provided ...

To exemplify this, we explore and extend a bio-inspired algorithm for collective construction influenced by paper wasp behavior. Despite its being provably general in its competence, we demonstrate ...

Wealth and its uses are rarely benevolent – it’s not just a means of living in luxury, but a means of changing perceptions.

Humans aren't the only animals to consume alcohol. But although the behavior is likely widespread in the wild, scientists ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the ...

Instead, they write in the paper, these colors “are formed in nature ... And while it might play a role in protecting the wasps from ultraviolet light, the team couldn’t prove that.