Scientists report unusually high Chagas disease parasite rates in kissing bugs collected near the U.S.-Mexico border region.

A group of parasitic insects tough enough to kill fire ants has shown researchers a nasty new trick. The creatures hide inside their victim by making the host form a protective bag of its own skin.

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that transmit Chagas disease in the Borderlands. The bugs were collected near ...

A University of Arizona study found that 40 percent of 164 kissing bugs collected in Tucson carried a parasite known to cause a potentially deadly disease that infects millions of people in Latin ...

Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like monarch butterflies.

Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You've never heard of it because it only infects bugs: millions upon millions of species of insects, spiders, centipedes and other ...

New insights into the evolutionary relationship between plant-dwelling insects and their parasites are revealed in the online open access journal BMC Biology. Researchers shed light on how sawflies ...

Discovery of the genes the insect parasite Wolbachia uses to control its hosts' reproduction provides a powerful new tool for enhancing biological control efforts for mosquito-borne diseases like ...