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

Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

Parasitic plants are notorious agricultural pests that drain nutrients from crops and cause economic losses of more than USD 1 billion due to yield losses every year. Yet these plants almost never ...

Figure 1: Mean (± s.e.m.) values for plant community parameters as affected by the presence of R. minor after three years. Main treatment effects on biomass of the most frequent plant species, and on ...

Scientists have just identified two previously unknown species of parasitic wasps living in the United States. The discovery is described in a study in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research led by ...

For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in Southeast Asian rainforests. They become visible only when they ...

A parasitic twin is an extremely rare type of conjoined twin. While research is limited, experts suggest that this condition doesn’t cause severe complications. But it requires surgery — often in the ...