Author: Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, UCL

Wasps get a hankering for jam once the colony larvae pupate. victoras/Shutterstock It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and that means sun, sea – and wasps. A lot of us have been taught to fear wasps as aggressive insects that exist only to make our lives a misery. But with unsustainable wildlife loss across the […]

I get twitchy about taking holidays at the end of August, because it’s the only time of year when people (and the media) in the UK seem to want to talk about wasps and I have spent my career trying to change people’s minds about these fascinating insects. Typically, the UK wasp hysteria season peaks […]