It's not often that you see a parent leaving their children in the company of an intruder and hoping they'll be OK, albeit a species of potter wasps known as Allodynerus delphinalis does it anyway. Not only that, but the Ensliniella parasitica, a parasitic mite living in the nest of this particular species ... |
7 July 2008
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No, toads do not cause warts (they are produced by viruses), nor scab, which is caused by a mite. But pet animals, like dogs and cats can transmit this parasite. Scabies is caused by the scab mite (Sarcoptes scabiei variety hominis), 0.3 to 0.9 mm long, which lives on the surface of the skin or beneath, feeding on de... |
14 April 2008
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Love is wonderful, but at a certain moment in the evolution, females decided they no longer needed males. (So, which one was the tough sex?). So, they just erased them from the list and started to reproduce through parthenogenesis ("virgin birth"), by producing clones of themselves. Males completely vanished (like in... |
17 April 2007
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The glory and the decadence of the mighty civilizations could now be tracked by ... dung! A French-British-American team has found a method to assess the rise and fall the ancient Inca empire by investigating tiny mite preserved in the mud at the bottom of a sacred Peruvian lake. Counting the number of fossilized mit... |
27 March 2007
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