According to the National Park Service, yellow jackets, which also go by the scientific names Vespula species, Vespa species, and Dolichovespula species, are considered beneficial insects.

Like other better-known (and better-liked) insects like bumblebees and butterflies, yellow jackets are also pretty good pollinators. According to the National Park Service, yellow jackets, which also ...

Using unconventional methods, the researchers showed just how good birds are at distinguishing wasp mimics from the real ...

#6 Yellowjacket (Vespula spp.) Yellowjackets are wasps common in North America. They build paper nests underground or in walls. Known for being aggressive near food or nests.

The United States’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law in 1973, has helped revive the populations of nearly 300 species.

Conservation is about the ecosystems that species define and on which they depend. Conservation is about finding alternative, sustainable futures for peoples, for forests, and for wetlands.

Scuba diving scientists found cryptic sea animals with over 17 arms that only emerge at night and discovered new species: cryptic feather star, study said.

U.S. officials proposed Monday to protect the pangolin, a small, nocturnal mammal covered in scales, under the Endangered Species Act. The pangolin is “the most trafficked mammal in the world ...