There are three groups of fascinating wildlife that folks have difficulty appreciating — wasps, spiders and snakes. Today, we’ll discuss wasps. All wasps are beneficial. They feed on — and feed to ...

Burgers, potato salad, corn hole and cool beverages: all staples of late summer barbecues and tailgate parties. It’s a great time until the wasps arrive, dive-bombing the watermelon and hiding in your ...

Pictured here is a red paper wasp, one of 22 species of paper wasps known to exist in North America. Paper wasps are so called because they build paper nests. I once observed one carefully cutting ...

My husband was stung by some wasps while mowing. They seem to be living in the ground. What can I do to get rid of them? - Lou O., Tulsa Yellowjacket wasps often nest in the ground and are very ...

Black Widow Spider Roughly the size of a paper clip and with the most dangerous venom 15 times stronger than a rattlesnake’s, ...

After 40 years in the RV park business, Teri Blaschki has learned to live with and even love paper wasps, stings and all. “I’ve been stung by them many, many times. It’s just what they do,” said ...

There are two species of red paper wasps in Oklahoma, the fine-backed red paper wasp (Polistes carolina) and the coarse-backed red paper wasp (Polistes rubiginosus). I believe the former is the more ...