The moth or phalaenopsis orchid is the one best adapted to your home environment, making it the easiest to grow. It thrives ...

Vilma Fernandez decided she wanted a special Thanksgiving meal for her in-laws visiting from Chicago — something local, she ...

The team used forceps to remove the mostly immature ticks from Central and South America and store them in ethanol. So far, exotic, neotropical, bird-parasitizing ticks have had limited success in ...

Ticks are very effective disease vectors, connecting humans and domestic animals to diseases carried in wild reservoirs like Lyme disease, and parasitizing birds—especially migratory birds ...

The research team explained that parasitizing migrating birds, which travel long distances, demands "significant" energy expenditure from the ticks attached to the birds. They say it may be that the ...

The introduction of exotic tick species to new geographical regions can cause the emergence of novel tick-borne pathogens. This study examined the prevalence of exotic tick species parasitizing ...

Ticks are very effective disease vectors, connecting humans and domestic animals to diseases carried in wild reservoirs like Lyme disease, and parasitizing birds — especially migratory birds — allows ...

But not many know about another type of good bug or “natural enemy”—parasitoids. These creepy insects can help reduce pest populations by parasitizing them. What is a parasitoid? Parasites such as ...