Diet: They consume insects, spiders, snails, caterpillars, berries, seeds, and small fruits. Nests: They rest in cup-shaped moss nests placed in a tree cavity. Identification: These small ...

especially if you can’t identify the types of insects you’re dealing with or you come across large nests between August and October, which is when wasps are most aggressive, Gray says.

(See sidebar for a complete list of authors.) InsectNet – which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists – provides identification and ...

Learn to identify these insects so you know what to do if you ... Interestingly, this species doesn’t actually make mud nests. Instead, females recycle old nests that were created by members ...