Just as humans are challenged from the social isolation caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a new study finds that a solitary lifestyle has profound effects on the brains of a social insect: paper ...

Everybody loves bees, but their cousins the wasps often provoke a far less friendly reaction. The much-maligned insects often inspire fear, disgust or even the "kill it with fire" response. The ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Though paper wasps have brains less than a millionth the size of humans', they have evolved specialized face-learning abilities analogous to the system used by humans, according to ...

Wasps and humans don’t have much in common, but a University study published yesterday in the journal Science ties them together in an unexpected biological way. The study, authored by Rackham student ...

A different species of paper wasp with a social structure that doesn’t favor face learning failed the face-recognition task completely. All together, Sheehan said, the results suggest that facially ...

A flash of yellow and black in the garden is often enough to make people step back. Yet most of us are not entirely sure whether the insect hovering near a flower bed is a bee, a wasp or a hornet. The ...