Aucklanders who feel like they have been dealing with more wasps are not imagining it. An ecology professor said a long, dry ...

A long, dry summer has led to “extremely high” numbers of wasps around the country – and Kiwis are being warned not to attack ...

“Wasp population dynamics tend to be cyclical, so a low year is followed by a high year – and this year the stars have ...

But their voracious appetites can cause problems if a species spreads or is introduced to new areas and their numbers aren’t kept under control, such as in New Zealand, where there are no native ...

There are a staggering 150,000 species of wasp and only a tiny, tiny minority cause us trouble. In the UK it is just two species of what are known as Yellowjackets, the Common Wasp and the German ...