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

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

Colonies of social wasps are considered annoying pests - they often nest in manmade structures ... aren’t kept under control, such as in New Zealand, where there are no native social wasps. ‘Where ...

Here's how to get rid of them.

Then there was the spa pool wasp attack in Onerahi, where unbeknown to me a wasp nest was under construction under the spa pool switch. When I turned on the switch I got stung and then chased into ...

New Zealand has one of the world’s highest ... a toxic bait that wipes out nests of German and common wasps within days. “As a rule of thumb, we should be reducing our reliance on pesticides ...

"New Zealand has the highest recorded densities ... a toxic bait that wipes out nests of German and common wasps within days. Vespex poses no threat to honeybees, because it uses animal protein ...