The email from Trip Lamb, biology professor at Eastern Carolina University, said, “As a velvet ant sting survivor, you may ...

Velvet ants have enormous stingers ― half their body length ― and the research paper focused on the full defense system of ...

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Babesia is a malaria-like protozoa that infects red blood cells. In the U.S., the main Babesia ... then developed seizures two years later after suffering an insect bite and subsequent rash. In 2022, ...

Two papers from the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal revealed two tick species are newly associated with causing Alpha-Gal Syndrome.

Scientists study cultural traditions in chimpanzees, revealing dialects used for mating and the impact of human influence on ...

A hummingbird chick in Panama mimics a poisonous caterpillar to avoid predators—a rare case of bird-to-insect mimicry. When ...

Tiny hummingbird chicks were observed mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to survive in the Panama rainforest–a first for science.

Hummingbird chicks pretend to be a caterpillar to avoid being eaten, reveals new research. The tiny birds, smaller than a pinky finger, act like poisonous caterpillars to survive, American ecologists ...

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A few seconds later, the wasp flew away. The jacobin hummingbird chick reminded Falk and Taylor of a paper they came across ... hairs that can give painful stings to predators and even kill ...