Before peonies bloom in spring their unopened flower buds produce a nectar that feeds a tiny wasp called a Spring Tiphia. These shiny, black, solitary wasps are about half an inch long and are ...

TOWN OF SAUKVILLE, Wis. - Wisconsin researchers are releasing tiny parasitic wasps in hopes of fighting a destructive beetle that has killed millions of trees. Researchers at the University of ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago suburb's a testing ground for a new weapon to combat green beetles that have already killed millions of ash trees in North America. The weapon is a tiny specialized wasp. And ...

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, a listener on “team wasp” writes in with some interesting info on USDA wasps for pesticide-free pest control and we learn about some wasp versus beetle drama.

An ash tree with an emerald ash borer trap is pictured in Oklahoma.(Photo by Dieter Rudolph/Provided by Oklahoma Forestry Services) On a day in early June, state forester Will Phifer carried a pill ...

WINONA, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is releasing stingless wasps in Winona to try to control the spread of the invasive emerald ash borer. Ash borer biocontrol coordinator Jonathan ...

DES MOINES — Thousands of stingless wasps are being enlisted to slow the onslaught of an imported pest attacking Iowa’s ash trees. Officials with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land ...

My toddler son likes to sit in the patch of flowers next to our front stoop, a perfect vantage point for watching insects zoom over his head. Throughout the summer, as I watched him play in the garden ...