My wife bought me one of those new a-salt rifles. Not assault, like you are thinking. This is a gun that uses salt for ammunition and is designed for shooting flies and other annoying insects. It is ...

(CN) — Scientists have unearthed a 99-million-year-old wasp preserved in amber that they say represents not just a new species but an entirely new family of insects from the mid-Cretaceous period.

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 ...

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For those who have asked what the point of wasps is, there is now a comprehensive answer. They are ...

THROUGH the energies of the late Alexander de Mattos a number of Fabre's most interesting studies in insect-life have been rendered accessible to the general reader in this country. The present volume ...

THIS book may be described as a popularization anew of the writings of Fabre and the Peckhams on the habits of the solitary wasps, enlivened by a number of personal anecdotes not always about insects, ...