Nicknamed the “bone collector,” this newly confirmed caterpillar in Hawaii secretly scrounges off a spider landlord by ...

Beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic, scientists have uncovered a chilling new threat lurking in the deep. Parasitic ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to Cattaraugus Creek to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom.

Fatmuckets, pocketbooks, pigtoes and other unfortunately named and endangered invertebrates don’t receive the same level of funding or public sympathy as game species that make their home in The ...

Every fall for years, Deborah McCullough and her husband fished salmon from Western Michigan’s Betsie River. “It’s a little river, and it was shaded, and you knew there was going to be big salmon in ...

Doctors in India recently made a rare and unsettling discovery after a 35-year-old man was admitted to the emergency room ...

They can be aquatic or terrestrial, parasitic or free-living ... ribbon worms, and even the larvae of certain insects like maggots and grubs. They’re a complicated group taxonomically and as unique as ...

This short lifespan is due to temperature, humidity, access to food, and susceptibility to predators and parasites. Fruit flies ... Mayflies are an aquatic species of fly that are found near ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

and people usually become infected after coming in contact with water infested with parasitic worm larvae. While several species of blood fluke worms can cause schistosomiasis, the current study ...