Wasps can be an annoying presence in your yard, building nests, buzzing around your backyard barbecues, and threatening with painful stings. But for those with serious allergies to insect stings, ...

This Week Outdoors: The fruit on mulberry trees is at the peak of ripeness, attracting large numbers and wide varieties of fruit-eating birds. Q: Can you tell us what's going on with wasps in our area ...

Summer calls for at-home barbecues, gardening and lounging by the pool — all of which become unpleasant when wasps are around. Wasps tend to build nests in sheltered areas like inside trees, under ...

After leaves fall, look up into trees for large, round, papery nests of bald-faced hornets. Each colony of these social wasps dies as weather turns cold, leaving only new queens to overwinter and ...

Q: These large wasps are chewing bark off of certain plants in my yard. What are they doing and why, and should I be worried? A: This is a European Hornet, a non-native social wasp that’s been in the ...

LITTLE ROCK — There are more than a million known species of insects and sometimes we feel every last one has landed in our yards. There are beneficial and destructive insects. Everyone wants ...

Q: We’ve noticed leaf damage this year on our rose bushes and apple and pear trees. More than previous years. But, peach, apricot and pomegranate seem unaffected. Some of our roses were decimated. Any ...

The Vespula group of invasive wasps are still active, but starting to show signs of slowly shutting up shop for the winter. Vespula germanica (German wasp) and Vespula vulgaris (common wasp) are the ...