One of three live bedbugs that crawled out of a library book in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2012. According to a comparison of two recently sequenced whole genomes of two genetically distinct lineages ...

Researchers from the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute and Texas A&M University recently gathered their resources to investigate the potential of vector-borne transmission of Chagas ...

Kissing bugs are vectors of a parasite that causes Chagas disease, which can lead to serious heart problems. Jennifer K. Peterson, University of Delaware assistant professor and medical entomologist, ...

AUSTIN -- Health officials in Elgin say they have seen three reported cases of kissing bugs in the city, researchers say all-together there have been 600 found in Texas. Of the reported cases, none ...

People in Florida are having to worry about a unique disease-carrying insect known as the kissing bug. New research shows these bugs are often loaded with a parasite that can cause a chronic, ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 years ago, bed bugs have enjoyed a thriving relationship with their human ...

While often overlooked, insects pose significant threats to human health, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a finding that challenges the idea that an ulcer-causing bacterium did not exist in the Americas before Europeans arrived, new evidence suggests that the ulcer bug has ...

Insects are essential for the health of the planet and humans are more reliant upon the activities of insects than might appear. This is not only in relation to pollinators. Insects are also embedded ...

When you want to learn about ecology, biodiversity, climate change or even humanity, you might start by popping open your favorite internet search engine. But thanks to entomology, some of the best ...

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