It's believed that Mr Sheehan succumbed to anaphylactic shock, triggered by a severe allergic reaction to the wasp stings.

When a wasp stings, it injects venom into the skin, causing pain, redness, and swelling. Unlike bees, wasps can sting ...

The outside world was too dangerous for me. The issue started with a seemingly innocuous wasp sting. I became a prisoner in my own home after getting stung in 2018, when I was 36 years old.

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 ...

A media tycoon has told of the terrible moment his wife collapsed in front of him at the breakfast table after being stung on the finger by a wasp. Jane Murray-Obodynski, 50, spent three years in ...

Parasitoid wasps use venom to alter the metabolism, immunity, and behavior of their insect hosts, creating a suitable environment for feeding wasp larvae. Because these wasps show large shifts in ...

A man is in critical condition in hospital after he was stung by a swarm of wasps in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). It is understood that the attack happened in the Lions River area when a delivery vehicle ...

A retired jockey who spent 20 years riding thoroughbreds has died after she was stung by a wasp in her backyard. Julie Murphy, 56, from Ipswich in Queensland's south-east, was stung last week ...

The Scarlet Velvet Ant, which is actually a type of wasp, has a sting so painful that it feels like hot oil spilling over ...

For example, most spider wasps, such as the tarantula hawk, paralyse arachnid prey using a venomous sting. Their larvae then eat the victim alive. There are almost 5,000 species of spider wasp ...