When a female mason wasp feels threatened, she jabs her stinger at an attacker, injecting it with a potent venom so she can make her escape. Male wasps lack this defense, because stingers evolved from ...

Getting stung by a wasp can be immensely painful, and typically leads to a reaction of swelling, redness, and itching around the sting site. Fortunately, if you have a normal reaction to a wasp sting, ...

Does spit really help with a mosquito bite? And onion with a bee sting? An expert gives answers on how to respond to common insect attacks. Andrea Warnecke/dpa It could be such a wonderful summer's ...

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A wasp sting is painful, but is it also dangerous? Experts at FITBOOK explain how to react if stung, how to recognize an allergic reaction, and what modern sting healers can do. You’ll also learn why ...

It’s late summer, and the dog-day cicadas (Tibicen canicularis, identifiable by its large size and black-and-olive-green pattern on the back of the thorax) are making themselves known. The males, ...

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A Gwinnett County woman says an afternoon in the garden ended with a close call that sent her to the hospital. Robyn Fly says she did not know she was allergic to wasps until ...