TIRUPATTUR: Coconut cultivation spanning across 10,500 acres in Tirupattur district is severely affected by black-headed caterpillars, as per farmers. As many a ...

An old '70s song goes, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” This was certainly the case for our old Labrador ...

An ecologist shares his passion for parasites. From their vital roles in nature, to strange super powers and extraordinarily complex life cycles, parasites are natural wonders worthy of protection.

Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...

Once again volunteers have been busily harvesting and packing local wildflower seeds for you, the residents of Coconino ...

Acerophagus papayae is a parasitic wasp that has proved to be a successful agent against papaya mealybug in Africa. Mealybug ...

Dia the Labrador retriever sniffs out the eggs of the invasive insects at a vineyard. CREDIT: Eric Clifton/Kaitlyn ...

Spoonbills made a triumphant return to Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17 th century in 2024. They were once ...

New parasitoid wasp from Texas This new wasp species was discovered on the Rice University campus in Houston. (Rice University) While many of these new species were found in fairly exotic places ...

In other cases, parasites can kill their host. Perhaps the most gruesome type of parasite, parasitoids, kill their hosts in order to reproduce. The disturbing chest-bursting scene from the 1979 ...

Parasite, zombie, leech - these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, ...

to make them resistant to parasitoid wasps as well. The gene essentially becomes part of the fly's immune system, one weapon in its armamentarium to fend off parasites. The results demonstrate how ...