Bug Eric

One way that I find insects in winter is by scraping off paper wasp nests that have been abandoned by the past season’s generation of wasps,...

Guest post by Heather Holm The Vespidae subfamily Eumeninae includes primarily solitary wasps that nest aboveground in pre-existing cavities...

Upon returning home last Thursday, I noticed the silhouette of what I thought was a paper wasp on the inside of one of the garage windows. I...

South Cape May Meadows in Cape May, New Jersey is a property managed by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for birds and other wildlife. Near the...

You literally don't have to do anything but step out the door to observe fascinating phenomena in the world of insects. I did just that ...

I was going to write at some point about how one of the other benefits of putting up a bee block ("bee condo") for solitary bees a...

Those "bee blocks," chunks of wood with holes of varying diameters drilled into them, are all the rage now for attracting solitary...

This has been an exceptional year for paper-making social wasps in the family Vespidae here along the Colorado Front Range. Most species of...

Last week I wrote about a mason wasp that successfully captured a leaf-rolling caterpillar. Amazingly, the day after I made that observatio...