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

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A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

In the damp understory of forests in Taiwan, mainland Japan, and Okinawa, a plant called Balanophora can fool you at first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Figure 2: Response of Trichogramma brassicae parasitic wasps to signals of its host, the large cabbage-white butterfly Pieris brassicae. In further two-choice bioassays, we investigated whether wasps ...

The parasitic mites were found on juvenile arachnids in the Butantan Institute collection. The larvae of Araneothrombium ...