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These wasps will attach their nests to many different surfaces but tend to prefer plant and bush stems. Potter wasp nests are often found hidden behind foliage in bushes. Potter wasp adults come in a ...

A potter wasp is just under an inch long, predominantly black with thin ivory bands along its thorax and abdomen and a noticeably elongated, narrow waist.

Immediately, I thought of the potter wasps that I had learned about in July. Potter wasps are solitary wasps. The female builds a marble-shaped nest attached to a stick, wall or other surface ...

Named after a "Harry Potter" creature, the wasp was one of 139 new species discovered in the Mekong Region in 2014.

However, there are more species of solitary than social wasps, and many of them are fascinating and also beneficial. Such is the case with the potter wasp.

When researchers at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin discovered a new species of cockroach wasp, it reminded them of something. The digger wasp is part of the genius Ampulex, and it has a ...

A biologist in New Zealand wants to clean up the image of wasps, by naming one – Lusius malfoyi – after one of Harry Potter’s arch-enemies.

While female wasps can rely on their venomous sting to defend against predators, the males were believed to be defenceless. However, Japanese researchers discovered that male potter wasps can use ...