If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

In the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are currently used to reduce ...

Scratching could promote a secondary infection, Cloyd says Warmer days may lead many to itch for spring and summer, but a ...

Eating undercooked meat is never a good idea - it can give you a nasty case of food poisoning within 24 hours. And there are other, longer-term ...

(Mental Floss)-- When it comes to parasites, it's all about perspective. You may call a lifetime of growing and feeding off another organism lazy, but we call it opportunistic. In fact, these ...

The high cost of eggs has been blamed on an ongoing bird flu outbreak -- but is that the only reason? Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and ...