Wildlife
How much do you know about Australia’s native fleas?
We chatted to flea expert Andrea Lawrence about the world’s biggest flea that exclusively feast on echidnas and why the study of fleas has global impacts.
Tag: parasites
Creatura Blog
This beautiful wasp is a parasitic killer
It must be one of the most beautiful insects we’ve ever seen, but you don’t want to get on the wrong side of one of these.
Creatura Blog
Attack of the parasitic face-huggers
There’s a little something eating your face: scientists would love to warn fish shackled with ‘face-huggers’.
News
Garlic wards off vampire-like parasites
Garlic can help fish avoid fanged, vampire-like parasites, a new study has found.