The insect of the year 2025 helps foresters fight the pest known as the wood wasp. This insect, roughly resembling a hornet, lays eggs in both live trees, leading to their death, and in freshly ...

The insect of the year 2025 helps foresters combat the pest known as the wood wasp. This insect, which bears some resemblance to a hornet, lays eggs in both live and freshly cut trees, leading to ...

When it senses one, it uses the ovipositor to drill through the wood fibres, to sting the grub and then lay an egg on it. Again, the wasp doesn't immediately kill its target; it uses venom merely ...

A significant new fact has emerged and it is that the wasps returning to Europe from Chile and South Africa have undergone a genetic micro-evolution which makes them more resistant to their natural ...

"If you focus on the sound, you'll see it's a little wasp just scraping the top surface of wood." The wasp will go back to its nest with a small pellet of wood in its mouth and create a sort of ...