Forestry officials in the US are releasing non-native species of parasitic wasps into our forests by the thousands, but there ...

A tiny worm turns static electricity into a powerful weapon, launching itself through the air to catch flying prey.

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Nature doesn’t need monsters—it builds them. Across the world, parasites hijack brains, alter behavior, and turn hosts into living tools. Some force animals into danger, others erase fear, and a few ...

Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

Journalist Daisy Hernández chronicles the history of Chagas disease, also known as kissing bug disease, and how it changed ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

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

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

A deadly parasitic insect that once terrorized U.S. livestock is now closer to Texas than it has been in decades. Mexican officials have confirmed the first known case of New World screwworm in the ...

Head lice don’t spread disease and aren’t considered a health hazard, according to the CDC, but they’re still gross, annoying and on the rise as kids head back to school. These tiny parasitic insects ...