Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

A group of parasitic insects tough enough to kill fire ants has shown researchers a nasty new trick. The creatures hide inside their victim by making the host form a protective bag of its own skin.

New insights into the evolutionary relationship between plant-dwelling insects and their parasites are revealed in the online open access journal BMC Biology. Researchers shed light on how sawflies ...

A University of Arizona study found that 40 percent of 164 kissing bugs collected in Tucson carried a parasite known to cause a potentially deadly disease that infects millions of people in Latin ...

Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You've never heard of it because it only infects bugs: millions upon millions of species of insects, spiders, centipedes and other ...

Vector-borne parasites are commonly predicted to be less virulent to the vector than to the definitive host as the parasite gains little by harming its main route of transmission. Here we assess the ...

The application of the MacArthur-Wilson equilibrium biogeography model to insect hosts and their parasites is discussed and encouraged. Colonization of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.), by ...

FRANCE has produced many notable parasitologists, and Brumpt, Neveu-Lemaire, Blanchard, and Ralliet are familiar names of authors of text-books on their subject. M. Seguy is chiefly known as a ...

THE note in NATURE of April 11 (p. 144) about the ravages of insect parasites upon the chir pine (Pinus longifolia) in the Himalayas suggests a consideration which, I think, is not enough present to ...