A recent study in Nature Communications found that mosquitoes are increasingly spreading across the globe through trade and ...

Sabina Chioma Eze is a researcher in zoology, medical and forensic entomology. She is an assistant lecturer at the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO), Benue State, and a graduate ...

We swat them, ignore them and hoover them up but the smallest creatures around us are helping forensic scientists uncover ...

Cane toads, aka bufo toads, in Florida secrete a toxin that can harm or even kill animals that lick, bite or eat them, ...

So when it comes to the question itself, myth or fact, the answer is clear. Humans are not eating eight spiders per year in ...

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DNA extracted from mosquito blood meals revealed traces of 86 vertebrate species, helping scientists track entire ecosystems.

Roughly 60 years ago, the United States eradicated the New World screwworm, an insect that feeds on living tissue. But now, ...

The meat allergy caused by tick bites was recently linked to the death of a man, who is believed to be the first to die from ...