When a queen wasp suddenly disappears, her colony doesn’t calmly choose a successor — it erupts into chaos. Researchers found that female wasps immediately begin battling for power, shattering the ...

In politics, business and other human organisations, leadership transitions can trigger intense power struggles. Rivals ...

A study has revealed that wasp colonies do not immediately collapse even when the queen disappears. The research team from ...

Watching fights between creatures in the wild can be an interesting insight into how they attack opponents and defend themselves. It says a lot about their evolution and how they have developed into ...

Tropical paper wasp colonies survive chaotic queen loss through "compensator" wasps that step up essential labor.

Lying dead inside a small container is one of the yellow jackets that nearly took Carolyn Staats’ life. Staats, 52, decided to keep the lone wasp after a nurse at Queen of the Valley Medical Center ...