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

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

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

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

Figure 1: Mean (± s.e.m.) values for plant community parameters as affected by the presence of R. minor after three years. Main treatment effects on biomass of the most frequent plant species, and on ...

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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 ...

For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in Southeast Asian rainforests. They become visible only when they ...

A parasitic twin is an extremely rare type of conjoined twin. While research is limited, experts suggest that this condition doesn’t cause severe complications. But it requires surgery — often in the ...

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