Queen wasps can live for up to a year, which is a long time if one gets into your home. Worker wasps don't share the long life of a queen. Fortunately, regardless of type or species, there are...
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Wasps are usually diurnal and sleep at night, so why are wasps often found buzzing around light fixtures in the dark? Artificial lights can mimic the sun causing confusion and providing an easy...
When a mosquito bites you, it injects specially evolved saliva to numb the area, so you feel nothing, but can they numb themselves? Insect biology is very different from mammals. It's hard to...
Mosquitoes are cunning hunters that use their senses of smell and vision to find blood-filled prey to dine on so the protein can nourish their eggs. Humans, with relatively thin skin and lack of fur,...
The older a mosquito is, the longer it will spend sucking your blood after sticking you with its proboscis. Although mosquitoes don't live long, they will typically live another one to three weeks...
Mosquitoes have a very different way of getting oxygen to their organs than mammals; in fact, they don't have blood vessels. Instead, a mosquito's heart pumps a fluid known as hemolymph, which serves...