When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Figure 2: Response of Trichogramma brassicae parasitic wasps to signals of its host, the large cabbage-white butterfly Pieris brassicae. In further two-choice bioassays, we investigated whether wasps ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

Car batteries don’t just die. Well, they will if you leave them for long enough. but not just over the course of a few hours or even just a day or two. Finding your car has a dead battery after it was ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

The black parasitic ant tricks the workers into attacking their amber queen. Current Biology / Takasuka et al. Ants are no strangers to violence. Sometimes, an outsider queen will attack a colony’s ...

A parasitic infection can cause various symptoms, depending on the organism. These can include flu-like or gastrointestinal symptoms, among others. Treatment may include medications. Parasites are ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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The parasitic mites were found on juvenile arachnids in the Butantan Institute collection. The larvae of Araneothrombium ...