Nothing brings fear into a gardener like the thought of a pest infestation on your precious houseplants! As loving plant ...

A chance observation of an unusual spider led scientists to identify a new parasitic mite species in Brazil. While sorting through spiders and scorpions in the Zoological Collections Laboratory at the ...

Learn more about a parasitic spider mite discovered in Brazil, the second of the genus ever described.

When researchers studying spiders and scorpions at the Zoological Collections Laboratory of the Butantan Institute in São Paulo, Brazil, came across a few-millimeter-long spider wearing something ...

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo ...