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 ...

Steinernema adamsi being released from the body of a deceased host. Credit: Adler Dillman / UCR UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects. These worms, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eternal youth is the first thing many of us might wish for if we stumbled onto a genie or a magic monkey’s paw, but there’s always a catch. Now, scientists have discovered a version of this story ...

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 mind-controlling parasites are “like a back-seat driver, but a bit more sinister.” By Veronique Greenwood A few years back, Ryan Herbison, then a graduate student in parasitology at the University ...

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 ...