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Blood-sucking ticks are gross and can carry a variety of diseases. But how do you protect yourself against ticks? And why do ...

James Bernot, a biologist at the Smithsonian, confirmed this. "They use their scraping mouthparts buried in the muscle," he told Live Science. The video was recorded at 1,604 feet underwater.

here’s what a stink bug actually is. The brown marmorated stink bug is a 0.5-0.625-inch shield-shaped insect that uses its piercing mouthparts to suck plant juices from fruits, seed pods and ...

with highest risk in mountainous areas and lowest risk along coastal plains – a pattern that matches the known distribution of the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum). The study used patients’ home ...

What they found astonished them: mouthparts so intricately specialized they rival those of any modern predator. “While we expected to find hell ant features, we were shocked by the ...

These arachnids do not have a tail and don’t sting. However, straight-faced solifugid scorpions have “wicked mouthparts that can bite,” according to Brown. Habitat: These arachnids can be ...

This subterranean predator has retained ancestral characteristics lost in most modern ant species, including specialized mouthparts adapted for a predatory lifestyle that likely resembles the hunting ...

They have an oval body with eight legs. Their mouthparts are called stylets. This needlelike structure pierces plants to suck out sap. Red two-spotted spider mites feed on a sugar beet leaf.

They land on us and probe our skin, puncturing it with their needle-like mouthparts. This does two things. First, the mouthparts lacerate capillaries in our skin, releasing adenosine triphosphate ...

With spring finally upon us and summer around the corner, many of us will be looking to get outside and enjoy the countryside after a very cold winter. And the same is true for our pets, who will ...

These insects feed on the tree by inserting their needle-like mouthparts at the base of the needles and sucking out nutrients. It’s kind of like a mosquito for trees. Over time, this feeding ...