These insects are crossing the border, bringing yet another infectious disease to the USA In A Nutshell Infection rates jumped dramatically: 84.6% of triatomine “kissing bugs” collected near the El ...

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) researchers discovered “unusually” high levels of the Chagas disease parasite found ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that ...

Scientists from University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) collected kissing bugs near homes and outdoor spaces along the ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso, led by Rosa Maldonado, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences, found ...

UTEP researchers have found unusually high levels in the Borderland of parasitic infection in insects that transmit Chagas ...

Living on a diet of blood requires some specific adaptations, such as a way to keep the food source flowing. To prevent their meal from turning into an indigestible clot, mosquitoes evolved very ...

Science writer Mindy Weisberger speaks to Live Science about the parasites that turn their hosts — whether ant, beetle or caterpillar — into zombie-like puppets that act against their own interests.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting ...