An analysis of 429 specimens belonging to 39 species representative of the diversity of Polistes in the Americas confirmed the inverse of Bergmann’s rule by pointing to larger body size for species ...

A species of paper wasp has a special talent for recognizing faces of its own kind, shows a new study. Scientists have long known that the wasp Polistes fuscatus can distinguish individuals in its ...

In terms of popularity, wasps sit somewhere between house centipedes and mosquitos in regards to universal desire for their demise — so the prospect that they can identify faces is pretty horrifying.

Inter-specific variation in the occurrence of individual recognition (IR) has mostly been examined in species that differ with respect to two critical conditions necessary for such ability: presence ...

Wasps are some of the most misunderstood creatures on the planet, but you definitely do not want to harass them. Although the ubiquitous insects are quite pretty — northern paper wasps, for example, ...