Key points Mammalian meat allergy is an allergy to a sugar molecule found in most mammals triggered in some by a tick bite.

Buff-leaf hawkmoth larvae and pupae hiss by forcing air through spiracles, using breath-powered sounds to deter predators.

To survive the bitter cold, Antarctica’s native residents adorn themselves with thick layers of fat and fur. A non-biting ...

A leading UK pharmacy is urging customers on repeat prescriptions to order their medicines 'by this date' in December to ...

A free shuttle bus service between two Isle of Man hospitals has begun, after services were relocated due to a pest control ...

The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning, advising Americans to increase their mosquito-bite protection as chikungunya sweeps rapidly across four international ...

BRITS are warned to ‘stay at home’ and ‘not go to work’ as a mutated strain of ‘superflu’ tears through the country. The UK has been hit with an earlier than ...

Insects are often tiny and easily overlooked, yet some pose serious threats to human health and life, either through venomous ...

Here’s what to do about these occasional invaders. You’re pulling out the holiday décor, or you just opened a cabinet or moved a book, and out scuttles a tiny, flat insect covered with silvery scales.

These trends threaten to undermine progress made in tackling animal vector-borne pathogens, including decades of investment and emerging technologies such as harnessing bacteria, genetic engineering ...