Moreover, wasp stings are painful and irritating ... the most common hornets are the European hornet — which has yellow and brown coloring — and the bald-faced hornet — which is black ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

Mr Murray-Obodynski said that two weeks before the wasp sting his wife had been riding when she received another sting which had swollen 'to the size of a fried egg'. They had thought it was a ...

It has a reddish-brown thorax and an abdomen with a black ... European hornets are dangerous if you’re allergic to bee or wasp stings, but they're generally not aggressive unless you disturb ...

Wasp stings were painful enough for people, but the brightly-coloured pests also had a devastating impact on our native species. “They kill lots of insects and feed on young, native birds in ...

What about the stings of bees or wasps? They’re not aimed at tapping our blood, but at protecting themselves and/or their colonies. “They inject venom into our skin, their goal being that we ...