Spiders and Ticks News
May 21, 2024
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May 16, 2024 Researchers have investigated how spiders listen to their environments through webs and found that the webs match the acoustic particle velocity for a wide range of sound frequencies. Playing sound ranging from 1 Hz to 50 kHz for the spiders and ...
May 17, 2024 The spiny legged 308-million-year-old arachnid Douglassarachne acanthopoda was discovered the famous Mazon Creek ...
May 3, 2024 Recent findings that plants employ a drought-survival mechanism to also defend against nutrient-sucking pests could inform future crop breeding programs aimed at achieving better broadscale pest ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Researchers have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause life-threatening neuroinvasive disease, including encephalitis and ...
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Mar. 28, 2024 Researchers have identified how the tick-borne Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus enters our cells. The results are an important step in the development of drugs against the deadly ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Spiders that disguise themselves as ants live in many locations around the globe but until now most had been able to avoid detection from fossil ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Infectious diseases specialists call the medical field to be ready to deal with the impact of climate change on spreading diseases, such as malaria, Valley fever, E. coli and Lyme ...
Mar. 19, 2024 Human sweat contains a protein that may protect against Lyme disease. About one-third of the population carries a genetic variant of this protein that is associated with Lyme disease in genome-wide ...
Feb. 18, 2024 Instead of carrying the babies until they hatched, as in most species of sea spiders, one parent (likely the father) spent two days attaching the eggs to the rocky bottom where they developed for ...
Feb. 13, 2024 The Joro spider was first spotted stateside around 2013 and has since been spotted across Georgia and the Southeast. New research has found more clues as to why the spider has been so successful in ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Researchers found that wolf spiders can't signal others or perceive danger from predators as easily on rain-soaked leaves compared to dry ones. Even communicating with would-be mates is harder after ...
Jan. 17, 2024 A molecule sourced from funnel web spider venom shows promise as a safe and effective future drug for heart ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Wildlife biologists used a novel technique to trace the movement of carbon through Arctic and boreal forest food webs and found that climate warming ...
Dec. 8, 2023 A recent study has revealed that an unlikely event, occurring over 12 million years ago played an important role in shaping one of Canada's most ...
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Dec. 8, 2023 A challenge among three housemates to identify species around their inner-Brisbane home has resulted in an academic research paper, showcasing the rich biodiversity in urban landscapes. ...
Nov. 3, 2023 A species of exotic tick arrived in Ohio in 2021 in such huge numbers that their feeding frenzy on a southeastern farm left three cattle dead of what researchers believe was severe blood loss. The ...
Oct. 18, 2023 The explosive rise in tick-borne diseases in many parts of the United States over the last five decades represents a major public health threat that demands innovative solutions, warns a group of ...
Oct. 9, 2023 Researchers have found that tropical forest ecosystems are more reliant on aquatic insects than temperate forest ecosystems, making them more vulnerable to disruptions to the links between land and ...
Sep. 20, 2023 Scientists have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing fibers six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. The study is the first to successfully ...
Sep. 13, 2023 Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in ...
Aug. 17, 2023 An extremely rare collection of 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France are closely related to living species, unlike older fossils of their ...
July 28, 2023 A medical therapy that inhibits the growth of cancer cells may one day be effective at treating Lyme disease, according to new research ...
July 28, 2023 A new spider species, a blind daddy long-legs, has been discovered in boreholes in Australia's Pilbara region. In addition, a new-to-science daddy long-legs species was found on Réunion island, ...
July 27, 2023 The link between tree diversity and spider populations can help homeowners and other land managers better plan tree plantings to naturally mitigate the effects of climate ...
July 25, 2023 Lower parasitism and predation in urban habitats may contribute to the invasion success of brown widow spiders, according to new ...
July 13, 2023 Averting our eyes from things that scare us may be due to a specific cluster of neurons in a visual region of the brain, according to new research. Researchers found that in fruit fly brains, these ...
July 10, 2023 Researchers drew inspiration from the spider silk spinning process to fabricate strong, stretchable, and electrically conductive soft fibers. Their novel technique overcomes the challenges of ...
July 7, 2023 A new study finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), implicating the parasites as possible agents in the disease's ...
July 7, 2023 In males of many species, it pays to identify females that are nearing maturity to be the first in line for mating. Now researchers have found a remarkable example: male spider mites guard and then ...
June 30, 2023 Ticks can be attracted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that their hosts naturally accumulate, researchers have ...
June 5, 2023 Researchers show that an evolutionary change in the length of lizards' legs can have a significant impact on vegetation growth and spider populations on small islands in the Bahamas. This is one ...
June 1, 2023 A recent study shows blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are actually really good at surviving extreme cold and heat in nature. Previous lab research suggests that even short periods of especially ...
May 17, 2023 A species of tiny, colorful jumping spider employs two lines of defense to avoid being eaten: camouflaging with plants and walking like an ant. Researchers report that this combination of camouflage ...
May 16, 2023 Despite their intimidating appearance, the giant yellow and blue-black spiders spreading across the Southeastern U.S. owe their survival to a surprising trait: They're rather timid. The Joro ...
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- Research Points to Potential New Medical Therapy for Lyme Disease
- From Down Under to Underground: Surprising Daddy Long-Legs Spiders Discovered in Australia and Réunion
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- Ticks May Be Able to Spread Chronic Wasting Disease Between Wisconsin Deer
- Spider Mite Males Undress Maturing Females to Win the First Mating
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- Synthetic Biology Meets Fashion in Engineered Silk
- Hungry Eyes: Spiders Lose Vision When They're Starving
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- 1,700-Year-Old Spider Monkey Remains Discovered in Teotihuacán, Mexico
- Mapping Lyme Disease out West
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- Ticked Off: New Device May Offer a Better Way to Prevent Tick Bites
- How Female False Widow Spiders Use Their 'spidey Senses' To Attract Mates
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- Neurotoxin from a Black Widow Spider Examined
- Male Spiders Are Attracted by a Female Like Planets Orbiting a Star
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- Human Lyme Borreliosis and Puumala Hantavirus Infection Incidence Follow Rodent Abundance Variations in Northern Europe
- Lyme Disease Heightens Risk of Mental Disorders, Suicidality