Silent threats come in many forms. In fruit and vegetable production, damage to plants from above-ground pests can be readily ...

Steinernema adamsi being released from the body of a deceased host. Credit: Adler Dillman / UCR UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects. These worms, ...

Today marks the third National Nematode Day, a day that’s especially exciting for the winners of The SCN Coalition’s $250 ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Nematodes, a diverse group of invertebrates, are believed to rival or even surpass insects in species count that have over a million known species. Phylum Nematoda includes harmful ...

Scientists were able to reanimate a nematode that had laid dormant in Siberian permafrost for approximately 46,000 years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Genetics—adding to ...

Nematodes, also known as roundworms, are one of the most resilient and peculiar animals on the planet. Some can survive in very hostile environments, like a dog’s intestines, yet they are deceptively ...

USDA Forest Service plant pathologists have discovered a new threat to loblolly pine seedlings grown in the South -- needle nematodes. In the July 2002 issue of Plant Disease, pathologists Stephen ...

A new species of spider was recently discovered near a forested area in Nong Rong, Phanom Thuan, Kanchanaburi, in western ...

A West Indian manatee feeding in Kings Bay, Crystal River, Florida.Credit...Steve De Neef/VW Pic/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images By Ellie Shechet Invisible worms are everywhere. Nematodes are ...

Two new nematode species, Orientatractis campechensis n. sp. and Orientatractis chiapasensis n. sp. (Atractidae, Cosmocercoidea), are described from the intestine of cichlid fishes collected in ...

In the Mesorhabditis belari roundworm, the sole purpose of males is to help females produce clones of themselves. In 1949, the young biologist Victor Nigon described the reproduction of various ...