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.

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 series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

A parasitic infection can cause various symptoms, depending on the organism. These can include flu-like or gastrointestinal symptoms, among others. Treatment may include medications. Parasites are ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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