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

Courtney Jackson Blair, an allergist and immunologist at Privia, says people experiencing an allergic reaction to a wasp sting will have symptoms that interfere with their ABCs: airway ...

2 Most people experience only mild symptoms after a wasp sting, such as localized pain and swelling. However, some ...

For most people, a bee sting only produces temporary pain and irritation at the site of the sting. For others, bee stings cause an allergic reaction that can range from mild to severe. In extreme ...

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 ...

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

(Only a small proportion of people are deathly allergic ... been adapted for violent defense. This group of stinging insects, the aculeate wasps (yes, bees and ants are technically a kind ...

The Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) family lie at a signalling node. A wide variety of upstream signals cause activation of WASP family members which then bind to the ARP2/3 actin ...

After being stung by a wasp or two ... that gives me data," he says. "A sting helps me in understanding what the insect is doing." At least someone out there is figuring out these details so ...