In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

Japanese frogs survive deadly hornet stings that reach lethal doses for mice, consuming Asian hornets despite repeated ...

Jacob Powell, Oregon State University, Hermiston Farm Fair, winter cutworm, cotton-batting cudweed, crops, farmers ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

An "excellently preserved" fossil of mosquito larva has been found by scientists in Myanmar, in southeast Asia. It's thought to be from the Cretaceous era, which means it could be around 99 million ...

Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their bodies. A mysterious group called y-larvae has baffled scientists for over a ...

If you’ve ever seen small, cone-shaped pits in fine soil or sand, you’ve likely found an antlion trap. These pit-building insect larvae hide beneath the surface, waiting to ambush ants and other small ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames. By Gennaro Tomma Living things have long needed to find ways to survive ...

Opatroides punctulatus Brullé, a Mediterranean darkling beetle, has been documented in Idaho for the first time by University of Idaho entomologist Armando Falcon-Brindis. Opatroides punctulatus ...

Armando Falcon-Brindis was busy with work at the University of Idaho’s Parma Research and Extension Center last summer when a request came in from an Eagle homeowner to identify the dozens of larvae ...