And why you should let them share your picnic ham and jam.
- Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL
How we train the next generation is critical to nature recovery.
Well, someone has to keep the larvae fed.
¿Sabía que las avispas cambian el jamón por la mermelada a finales del verano?
Saviez-vous qu’à la fin de l’été, les guêpes cessent de chercher des protéines pour se tourner vers les aliments sucrés comme la confiture ?
Did you know wasps switch from ham to jam foraging during the late summer?
Nature literacy has inspired creativity and innovation for thousands of years.
Scientists know why there aren’t as many wasps around this year - but we don’t have much data on what is happening long term.
Think your social life is complicated? Consider the wasp.
Why you shouldn’t get in a flap over reports that swarms of wasps are descending on Britain.
New research showed a type of wasp which eats its own siblings.
We value bees for the jobs they do for the environment and us – why is the same not true of wasps?
C’est toujours la même histoire : à la fin de l’été, les guêpes débarquent à table et tournent autour de nos verres. Mais pourquoi deviennent-elles aussi envahissantes à ce moment-là ? Leur comportement n’a en réalité rien d’un hasard…
Finally we have a word to describe why wasps bother you in late summer: furlough.
Killing insects, as the Big Wasp Survey asked people to do, contributed to many vital advances in science.
We should celebrate these amazing insects, not splat them.
The new government should link policies on education, career progression and welfare to tackle the lack of women in science.
In recent years, being able to engage the general public with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) has become part of the job for many academics, who are increasingly required to show…
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