Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently found and killed a yellow-and-black mud dauber wasp that was very docile because I didn't realize mud daubers are ...

Many people tend to run when they see a wasp and avoid an area if they see one of their nests overhead. However, did you know there is a special species of wasps that also build their nests out of mud ...

Of the over 4,000 known species of wasps in California, two are known as mud daubers: Sceliphron caementarium (black and yellow mud dauber) and Chalybion californicum (blue mud dauber). Mud daubers ...

Mud daubers are wasp-like insects that construct nests from mud. They make a variety of nests ranging from elaborate structures (i.e., multiple tubes several inches long or small vase-like nests ...

If your favorite summer treat is a warm, ripe tomato straight from the garden, or even if the closest you get to a tomato is the ketchup on your burger, you should thank a bee, specifically a ...

At 65, George Daniel Shafer had had a full, busy career as professor of physiology at Stanford University. On the first morning of the college year after “Emeritus” was added to his former title, ...