Brown widow spiders protect their egg sacs by capturing and killing parasitic wasps and constructing silk spikes. The tactics ...

Parental care might help invasive brown widow spiders spread. Valeria Arabesky and colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the ...

A Deadly Parasite Threatens Bees and 130 Crops They Help Grow Scientists are racing to stop a tiny mite that could devastate ...

The New World Screwworm is a devastating parasite now on the US border. Has it been found in Ohio? How to spot them and what ...

Horsehair worms, also called Gordian worms, develop in the bodies of grasshoppers, crickets, cockroaches and some beetle ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said May 11 that it is suspending imports of livestock through Mexico because of New World ...

The larvae of the Short-Necked Oil Beetles lurk among flowers waiting for a passing bee to carry them back to its nest, where they feed on all the pollen the bee has collected. The species' name comes ...

The New World Screwworm would like a word. Despite the name, the parasitic insect is actually a fly. It looks similar to a housefly, but it lays eggs inside wounds and has larvae that eat through ...

The discovery of the bone collector species was serendipitous. "You never forget your first bone collector," Rubinoff told ...

In a karst cave in China, a rainbow-like parasitic creature was discovered as a new species. Francesco Ungaro via Unsplash Relationships between living things can take many forms. Bees get nectar ...