Ants and other species who lived alongside dinosaurs but preserved in fossilized tree resin reveal a great deal about their ...

One thing makes parasitic or “zombie” fungi terrifying in the horror genre, and that is fungi like this exist in real life. The fungus called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis has kept its preference for ...

Some butterfly species can’t grow unless they trick ants into taking them home with a complex rhythmic signal.

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Certain parasitic fungi, including species of cordyceps, infect insects and alter their behavior before killing them. After ...

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Humans tend to fear bed bugs, and rightly so. The bloodsuckers are tough to get rid of once they've entered a home. But new research has, for the first time, identified one thing the bugs seem to fear ...

When it comes to biodiversity, researchers and the public tend to focus on large-scale patterns. This overlooks a hidden but precious diversity: small, inconspicuous wasps, midges, flies, beetles and ...

These flies lay eggs on open wounds, and their larvae feed on live flesh. And a case was just stopped in a Florida quarantine ...

EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- UTEP researchers have found unusually high levels in the Borderland of parasitic infection in insects that transmit Chagas disease. Chagas disease is spread by blood-feeding ...

EL PASO, Texas (Jan. 6, 2025) – Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands ...