Pest and Parasite Articles

• Infant's Health
  Agriculture and Food
  Food and Agriculture
  Organic
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Pesticide

  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or USEPA) defines a pesticide as "any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest". A pesticide ... > more
• Invasive Species
  Drought
  Endangered Plants
  Botany
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  New Species
   
  

  Water hyacinth

  The seven species of water hyacinths comprise the genus Eichhornia of free-floating perennial aquatic plants native to tropical South America. One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth ... > more
• Spiders and Ticks
  Sports Medicine
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Allergy
  Staying Healthy
   
  

  Mite

  Mites, together with ticks, belong to the subclass Acarina (also known as Acari) and the class Arachnida. Mites are among the most diverse and successful of all the invertebrate groups. They have ... > more
• Virology
  Viruses
  Infectious Diseases
  Invasive Species
  Pests and Parasites
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  West Nile virus

  West Nile virus is a virus of the family Flaviviridae, found in both tropical and temperate regions. It mainly infects birds, but is known to infect humans, horses, cats, bats, chipmunks, skunks, ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  New Species
  Pests and Parasites
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   
  

  Nematode

  The roundworms or nematodes are one of the most common phyla of animals. They are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments. Further, there are a great many parasitic forms, ... > more
• Invasive Species
  Healthy Aging
  Insects (including Butterflies)
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Animals
   
  

  Fire ant

  Fire ants are stinging ants of the genus Solenopsis. A typical fire ant colony produces large mounds in open areas, and feeds mostly on young plants, seeds, and sometimes crickets. Fire ants often ... > more
• Food
  Food and Agriculture
  Botany
  Trees
  Pests and Parasites
  Seeds
   
  

  Cacao

  Cacao is a small evergreen tree in the family Sterculiaceae (alternatively Malvaceae), native to tropical South America, but now cultivated throughout the tropics. Its seeds are used to make cocoa ... > more
• Fungus
  Trees
  Microbes and More
  Invasive Species
  Pests and Parasites
  Mating and Breeding
   
  

  Birch bracket

  Birch Bracket (Piptoporus betulinus - also known as Razor Strop) is one of the most common polyporous bracket fungi and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on Birch trees. The brackets ... > more
• Fungus
  Microbes and More
  Microbiology
  Organic
  Geochemistry
  Soil Types
   
  

  Fungus

  A fungus (plural fungi) is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells. Fungi are very important economically: yeasts are responsible for ... > more
• Insects (including Butterflies)
  Sports Medicine
  Animals
  Healthy Aging
  Mating and Breeding
  Attention Deficit Disorder
   
  

  Housefly

  The housefly (also house-fly or house fly) (Musca domestica) is the most common fly occurring in homes and indeed one of the most widely distributed animals and the most familiar of all flies; it is ... > more

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