Parasitic tapeworm larvae release glutamate and other excitatory molecules that can directly excite brain neurons.

When a female cowbird is ready to have a baby, she’ll stake out another bird’s nest, wait until the coast is clear, then slip ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to ...

The AI microscope will automate the tedious job of fecal egg counting, which is used to identify parasites in farm animals.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to the Sucker River in Alger County to eliminate sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom. Applications will be conducted ...

The Department of Agriculture is pursuing a disgusting—but effective—strategy to eliminate the larva of the New World ...

As kitten season continues to be overwhelming, I’m sure that those of you caring for the little ones have become aware that ...

USDA releases billions of sterile flies from planes to fight deadly flesh-eating maggots threatening livestock.

Within three months, a shipment of small branches arrived in California. The branches carried not only cottony cushion scale, ...

To boost your garden’s ladybug population to control pests naturally, an expert warns against a common mistake.