What does a student who has an interest in research, parasites, diseases and infections do? Study bot fly infestation on ground squirrels of course. Last summer, Cal State Fullerton biology and health ...

The parasite’s scientific name is Cuterebra emasculator, which, from its Latin roots, translates as skin-boring testicle remover. In 1856 Asa Fitch (the nation’s first professional entomologist) ...

An owl’s talons is the only thing that Jerri Peake could imagine could cause those round lesions on this squirrel she saw crossing her deck in Pine Meadows in Virginia Beach. There was even a similar ...

Marcia Pierce photographed this poor squirrel in her Kings Grant yard. “The sores he has are absolutely hideous,” Pierce wrote. The squirrel has warbles. Warbles are the larvae of the botfly, or ...

Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 CU-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude, developed hishonors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a ...

Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 CU-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude, developed his honors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a ...