Horsehair worms (Paragordius varius) are known to infect house crickets and cause them to commit suicide by jumping into a body of water. The worm then emerges and makes the water its home.

I remember the day I got obsessed with a tiny, see-through worm. I was in a classroom at Northeastern University, where I worked at the time, giving a science-communication workshop to a group of ...

Autumn is also allergy season for those sensitive to ragweed. "A spike in ragweed tends to mark the informal start of the fall allergy season, which typically begins in mid-August," Dr. Rachna Shah, ...

Here, adopting the basic functional principles of metameric worms, we propose a new pneumatically-driven soft robotic system that mimics the motions and replicates the functionality of a single ...

It is also endlessly entertaining to watch fresh-faced Dune players run into the worm for the first time. Their audible gasp when they see it emerge, and their panic on Discord when they know the ...

Volunteers are being sought to help survey for glow worms at a country estate. They will spend 10 weeks looking for the insects, which are beetles that use bioluminescence to attract mates ...

In one case, a society found red-coloured worms in its drinking water filter. People in Punawale and Tathawade are also getting muddy water and do not have any option but to use it. As a result, many ...

It's the stuff of nightmares: countless worms slithering over each other to form a slimy tower that can move like a single superorganism. And yet researchers from the Max Planck Institute of ...

Even in the shade of a fruit tree, you could be surrounded by tiny skyscrapers — not made of steel or concrete, but of microscopic worms wriggling and writhing into the shape of long ...

Visible signs in waste or fur often serve as the first indicators of infestation. In 2023, a nationwide survey revealed that untreated worm infestations contribute to 15% of feline hospitalizations.