"Steve Martin may have started out as the Jerk, but he has ended up as the Legend," noted Susan M. Kirschbaum writing for In Style. The legend in this case was Martin's commendation by the American Museum of the Moving Image in 2000. For more than four d...

Don’t pick a wasp out of a cream-jug. (Yiddish) The wasp makes not honey. (Turkish) Wasps haunt the honey pot....

An organization known as the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was formed in August 1943 as an amalgamation of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, started by Air Transport Command employee Nancy Love in September 1942, and the Women's Flying Training Detachment, founded in November...

WASP BITES WASP Many types of colonial insects share information via body contact. One of the more mysterious forms of such contact is known as social biting, and species that engage in the practice don't necessarily restrict themselves to dainty nibbles. Polybia occidentalis wasps,...

Some tiny, parasitic wasps from China no larger than a sesame seed may help halt the destruction of Michigan's dwindling population of ash trees.The wasps lay eggs inside the larvae and eggs of emerald ash borers. The baby wasps that hatch feed on their hosts...

Contemplating a second home in Florida? Struggling to decide between frowzy Palm Beach and freaky Miami Beach? Let me add to your confusion.My husband Jonathan Adler and I spent last week in Florida, commuting back and forward between Palm Beach and Miami Beach. We are...