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 ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped ...

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

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

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

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

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

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 ...

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

Oral myiasis, a rare parasitic infestation, occurs when fly larvae invade mouth tissues due to poor hygiene, wounds, or weakened immunity. Primarily f ...

If detected, cows can be treated for the flesh-eating parasite. But when undetected, the parasites can spread to just about every mammal, including household pets. In rare instances, humans have ...