Red wasps are aggressive insects with painful stings and can sting repeatedly. Their nests house up to 5,000 wasps and are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Red wasps, especially the Carolina paper wasp, are known to be more aggressive than typical paper wasps and can sting with little ...

The leader is dead, triggering a bitter power struggle between rival factions bent on seizing control. Meanwhile, the ...

Ouch! Those intimately acquainted with the sting of Alabama's notorious red wasp know that they never want to encounter another. And who can blame them? Knowledge is power, so get to know this flying ...

Wasps are essential pollinators, but you likely don't want them near your home. However, treatment depends on the species of wasp and where the nest is, so identifying types of wasp nests is crucial.

Pictured here is a red paper wasp, one of 22 species of paper wasps known to exist in North America. Paper wasps are so called because they build paper nests. I once observed one carefully cutting ...

There are two species of red paper wasps in Oklahoma, the fine-backed red paper wasp (Polistes carolina) and the coarse-backed red paper wasp (Polistes rubiginosus). I believe the former is the more ...

Paper wasps are vespid (stinging) wasps that have long legs. These wasps are reddish-brown to black in color with yellow markings. The most common paper wasps are 5/8 to 3/4 inches in length. They're ...

Researchers found that tropical paper wasp colonies survive queen loss by splitting social responsibilities carefully.

Common around household eves and neighborhoods as they are in the woods, the eight species of paper wasps resident in this state are well known to most Oklahomans. The wasps range in color from ...