Some bugs can be tricky to tell apart, especially when you don't want to get close! Here's how to distinguish a paper wasp vs ...

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 ...

While wasps are generally beneficial in the garden, too many can be a big problem. To reduce their numbers, deal with this ...

They are both nest-building social insects, but paper wasps and honey bees organize their colonies in very different ways. In a new study, researchers report that despite their differences, these ...

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 ...