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5 Surprising Things That Attract Wasps to Your Property

If you notice more and more wasps congregating in your yard and garden, these 5 things could be to blame. 1. Fruit trees If wasps started congregating on your property, they probably found a source of food or water.

Heed These Tips, and You'll Never Have Wasp Problems Again

Below you’ll find 5 home remedies for keeping wasps away from your home and 3 home remedies for getting rid of their nests successfully. How to Keep Wasps Away 1. Plant Wormwood The wormwood plant is a boxy shrub that is perfect for keeping wasps at bay.

Do Plants Get Cancer? Yes, From Wasps.

It's a wasp gall on an apple tree In short, the answer is yes. But not in the sense you're used to when talking about cancer. Plants (especially and specifically trees) can and do get tumors, but these aren't as fatal to the plant as they may be for mammals.

Which Bug Bites and Are Dangerous and Which Are Harmless?

Bees and wasps While bees are generally timid creatures and are crucial for the pollination of countless flowers, as well as honey production, wasps and hornets aren’t as easy to forgive.

These 3 Creepy Animals Can Save Human Lives

Wasps, spiders, and cockroaches may be creepy, but all 3 may soon be able to revolutionize medical research. Let’s all admit it, the majority of people have a difficult relationship with most arthropods.

You'll Think Twice About Foods You Buy After Reading This

Figs tend to have at least one dead wasp inside of them. Seeing as figs are actually flowers as opposed to being fruits, they need to be pollinated, and that’s where the warm and fuzzy fig wasp comes in.

Natural Leaf Miner Pesticide that Won’t Kill Your Plants

Leaf miner larvae are the target of one species of small, parasitic wasp, Diglyphus isaea, which lays its eggs in the leaf miners. The wasp’s own larvae eat the miner, putting a definite end to their leaf-munching ways.

Going Down to Insect Level - Incredible Photos!

Wasp Yellow Jacket Mimic Fly Female Northern Black Widow Spider The Endangered Karner Blue Melissodes dentiventris Beetle on glass Black Horse Fly Augochlora regina Oblong-winged katydid Megachile-campanulae Lasioglossum nr longifrons Lace Bug Rove Beetle Trypoxylon mexicanum Centris haemorrhoidalis

In Pictures: Royal Entomological Society Photo Contest

Species: Digger Wasp, Crabonidae A close-up photograph of a digger wasp excavating chambers in a raised garden bed. [related_articles] 8. “Robber fly breakfast” by Jamie Smart (UK). Second Place, Under 18.

Explore the Most Bizarre Planets We've Discovered So Far

WASP-12b If you're looking for somewhere nice and warm to escape to, then nowhere is better than WASP-12b. In fact, WASP-12b is by far the hottest exoplanet that has ever been discovered, with average temperatures of around 2250°C!

These Colorful Creatures May be Hiding in Your Closet

Wasp Moth Before it starts building its cocoon, the wasp moth caterpillar forms protective “fences” to block hungry ants from reaching his cocoon. 10.

These Short Stories Pack More of a Punch Than Most Novels!

The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees This is one of those stories that works both as a metaphor (for colonialism, for what happens when one nation makes another a “client state”), but also as a straight-up piece of speculative biology – a group of wasps conquers a group of bees, and some of

DIY: 12 Ways to Give Your Plastic Bottles New Life

Wasp traps Source 11. Bookshelf organizers Source 12. Bird feeder Source 12 New Uses for Plastic Bottles tips, do it yourself, bottles, DIY, recycle, Household Tips, repurpose Recycling is good but did you know there are lots of other things you can do with plastic bottles?