In a nutshell Park entrances have the highest concentration of Toxocara parasite eggs, followed by playgrounds, posing a ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, ...

But an ancient parasite egg discovered in a 6,200-year-old grave hints that humans unwittingly spread disease using the earliest farming technology. The schistosomiasis parasite egg was unearthed ...

The parasite eggs show that people who came from the food cultures of the Chinese continent and Korean Peninsula lived in Fujiwarakyo, the institute said in its report released in the spring.

Football-shaped whipworm eggs pictured in the top row, circular tapeworm eggs with a dark outer shell pictured in the bottom row. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

For the parasite, benefits include increased fecundity due to greater allocation of resources toward mating and producing more eggs rather than defending nests, incubating eggs, and feeding young.

The four most concerning female parasites lay eggs at different rates. For instance, a female brown stomach worm will lay about 200 eggs per day, while a female barber pole worm can lay 10,000 eggs a ...