A team of entomologists and botanists at the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi and the ...

Treated plants fight pests without the need for toxic pesticides, oozing a "larval toffee" that stunts tomato pinworms’ growth and attracts predators.

You can have one threadworm inside you or multiple. The females are more likely to crawl outside at nighttime, and they can ...

Worm infections are more common than many people think, and they don’t only affect children. These are some signs you need to deworm.

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the ...

Student journalist Taryn Pollock explains what the ophiocordyceps unilateralis fungus is and why it is commonly called the ...

After nine months, the strange behavior that claimed the lives of endangered sawfish is back. Here’s what we know about ...

A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...