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Teen Becomes Temporarily Paralyzed After 2 Insect Bites: 'Something Was Very Wrong'
People Magazine· 1 day agoKellen Knutson developed a serious illness that landed him in the hospital for two months where he...
Consumer Report: The Lone Star tick is spreading
KRGV Rio Grande Valley· 6 days agoIt sounds like something out of a science fiction novel: A disease that could make you allergic to meat? It’s real, out there, and more concerning, it’s...
The truth about 'zombie cicadas': 'The fungus can do some nefarious things'
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoFox News Digital spoke with several cicada experts to find out the facts vs. fiction regarding...
Zombie parasite or pest prevention? How FGCU is studying the positives in parasites
ABC 7 Gulfshore News· 1 day agoPrepare to witness something that seems straight out of a science fiction movie. The alien-looking...
The praying mantis is a predator: Lifeform of the week
EarthSky· 5 days agoThe praying mantis is a vicious predator. The praying mantis is more of a preying mantis, because...
'When I pointed it out, the employee gave me an attitude': Chipotle customer finds something strange...
The Daily Dot· 11 hours agoAnother Chipotle customer has found a bug inside one of the brand’s numerous locations. “Y’all make...
Mosquito borne virus detected in Saginaw County
WLNS Lansing via Yahoo News· 5 days agoJamestown Canyon can cause severe disease, including encephalitis (inflammation of the brain),” the Centers for Disease Control reports. This is the...
How billions of cicadas coordinate their emergence
Digital Journal· 5 days agoPhysicist Graham studies complex networks and network science and has made careful note of the activities of these insects. Cicadas have prominent eyes...
Juvenile Hormone as a contributing factor in establishing midgut microbiota for fecundity and...
Nature· 4 days agoIn A. aegypti, the female mosquito midgut responds to mating and to juvenile hormone. Immune suppression in the midgut results in an increased bacteria load in mated animals. The midgut response to mating positively affects the reproductive outcome.
What is the Smallest Animal to Dream?
The Scientist· 6 days ago“The brain activity, it looks like it’s awake,” explained Bruno van Swinderen, a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland who studies consciousness...