You might have observed that most of the wasp’s species are annoying. Scientific research believes that some wasps sting while others do not. If you experience a high number of wasps around your attic or at the workplace, then there must be a nest near your location. These species will build a nest either on […]
How Do Wasps Build Wasp Nests? Wasps are social creatures who build their nests to raise and breed their young ones. They build their colonies either on overhang areas, underground sites or form a nest in connection with external structures. The nests made by paper wasps, yellow jackets and hornets comprise of paper. Nests created […]
Three ways to identify wasps Wasps belong to the family of insects, and one can distinguish them among thousands of other species. Some of them are considered to be beneficial insects while others as a pest insect species. These species are spread all around the globe. Common wasps are predatory in nature. The most commonly […]
In what condition will the wasps sting people? Unless people step on their nest, wasps only sting during the later part of the summer season. During this time of the year, the social structure of these insects is breaking down. The annual cycle of their lives is entering into a new phase. Throughout the year […]
Buffalo gnats are also known as the black flies. These are the types of the insects who live on blood. Feeding on the blood means they cause many diseases, river blindness is one of them. Most of the time they get their diet from the mammals and other animals, sucking blood. However, the male species […]
Tsetse fly, also known as a tik-tik fly, exists abundantly in some regions of African Continent. Its name comes from one of the languages in Southern Africa i.e. Tswana that means ‘fly.’ This fly is one of the kinds of a housefly. One can find more than 23 species of tsetse flies in mid-continent African. […]
Sand gnats resemble a mosquito than to a fly as it carries two wings. Sand gnats or tiny black critters are known by different names such as Chitra, punkie, or punky, biting midges, granny nipper, sand flea, non=see-um. The most important thing about sand gnat is their ability to bite and suck blood. Once bitten, […]
Sand flies have been observed to be carriers of various types of diseases which sometimes prove to be fatal. They are known to spread typhus and plague around humid regions at an alarming rate. However, due to over time evolution and scientific revolution in the field of pesticides and insecticides, they have been converted into […]
Basic information about wasps Wasps belong to the order Hymenoptera. The order besides wasp also contain bees, ants, and sawflies as its members. There are almost 100,000 different species of wasps found all over the world, and the majority of them are parasitic in nature. They are typically confused with the bees because of their […]
There is an extensive list of tiny creatures that we come across in our daily life. House flies, honey bees, bugs, mosquitoes are present everywhere. From this list, we can find the insects that harm human life. There are some who merely cause any serious harm to people’s health but have adverse implications for other […]
