Assessing trees in your landscape and pesky paper wasps are this week's topics. Assessing trees in your landscape and pesky paper wasps are the topics for this week’s Backyard Farmer. They Backyard ...

Paper wasps are vespid (stinging) wasps that have long legs. These wasps are reddish-brown to black in color with yellow markings. The most common paper wasps are 5/8 to 3/4 inches in length. They're ...

In a series of studies over more than 20 years, University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Tibbetts and her colleagues have demonstrated that paper wasps, despite their tiny brains, have ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to ...