A bite from this arachnid won't give you as many problems as black widow bites, but it's still no fun. [Shutterstock/Courtesy] Israeli researchers have discovered that brown widow spiders, a global ...

I recently found and killed a yellow-and-black mud dauber wasp that was very docile because I didn't realize mud daubers are non-aggressive. When left alone, these wasps only use their stingers to ...

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If you love figs, you may have heard some unsettling lore about them: that every fig hides a wasp, because these insects need ...