The European hornet, the largest wasp species native to Europe, is recognizable by its reddish-brown head and thorax, with a black and yellow striped abdomen. Known for its potent sting ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

These yellow wasps are only about 3 centimeters long. They have black around their heads and reddish-brown stripes along their bodies. Although they do not fall onto Schmidt’s Sting Pain Index ...