That’s a good question, because it’s complicated. A queen bee is a female bee that is the only bee in the hive to lay eggs. She is also the largest bee in the hive. If you think that wasps have queens ...

Summertime means a few things — your kids are home from school, you spend more time in a swimsuit than in jeans and popsicles are disappearing from your freezer. Unfortunately, it also means that bees ...

Wasps have slim bodies and narrow waists that connect thorax and abdomen. Bees have thick, rounded bodies with stripes. Check out more fascinating bumblebee facts, and learn how you can host mason ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...

Some wasps are social insects, meaning they live in groups and have a queen. (umsiedlungen/Pixabay.com), CC BY-SA Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages ...