Last week, I noticed a huge wasp perched on a dried-up cucumber leaf. It was a male cicada killer wasp, Sphecius speciosus. These beneficial wasps show up each year shortly after the annual cicadas ...

I think I can find agreement in most quarters that everyone loves bees. They mind their own business, pollinate flowers, and ...

They may carry the name of a bug you’d write a horror movie about -- but they aren’t as scary as they sound. As annual cicadas emerge in Michigan every summer, another animal emerges from the depths ...