What is "wasps"

Usage examples of "wasps".

They can also be parasitized by tachinid flies, trichogramma and braconid wasps, and nematodes.

Although our Aussie wasps are pretty docile, they take a dim view of their nests being moved.

But if you are lucky enough to have a native wasp nest in the yard, try to leave it there, so the wasps can go about their business of gobbling up pests that would otherwise be bothering you.

Traps can be used for flies, moths, European wasps, aphids, beetles, slugs and snails, and many more pests.

Paper wasps live together in groups and protect the nest, mud daubers mostly just build it and forget it.

A number of parasitic wasps will attack earworms, and green lacewings make excellent predators too.

Not only did they precede us by more than two hundred million years, but termites had air-conditioning before we had houses and wasps could paralyse their prey before we had anaesthesia.

Like the paper wasps, they build a nest so they can raise their young, but there the similarity ends.

Although they look like real killers, these wasps are pretty harmless.

Sneak out late at night when the poor wasps are asleep and zap them with a five-second spray, or throw the kerosene.

Running like hell at the first sign of wasps taking off is a good idea!

Parasitic wasps, who have the tiniest of tongues, need the smaller blossoms of herbs and flowers like coriander, dill, fennel, lovage and parsley.

European wasps nest under the ground or inside something hollow, while paper wasps nest in the open.

Both wasps are yellow and black, but the European ones are a lighter canary-yellow and the black bands tend to form little arrowhead shapes.

European wasps flying in and out of a hole in the yard, stay away from it and ring the local department of agriculture or the council.