Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region "Cerro de la Muerte". The discovery was made thanks to molecular data analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge ...

Several periods of field work during 2008 have led to the discovery of a new species of bamboo-feeding plant lice in Costa Rica's high-altitude region Cerro de la Muerte. The discovery was made thanks to molecular data analysis of mitochondrial DNA. The collected records have also increased the overall knowledge ...

Loyola University Health System pediatrician gives tips for dealing with lice.

Aphid researchers found one new species, Aleurodaphis sinojackiae, from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, China. It forms leaf galls on jack trees and is one of two known gall makers in the plant lice Aleurodaphis.

For the past three years, scientists, engineers and operators in the farming industry have been developing the well-boat technology of the future. Here are some of the results.

A new study louses up a popular theory of animal evolution and opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early – perhaps even the first – animal hosts of lice.The study, in Biology Letters, uses fossils and molecular data to track the evolution of lice and their hosts. It offers ...

A new study louses up a popular theory of animal evolution and opens up the possibility that dinosaurs were early -- perhaps even the first -- animal hosts of lice.

The tiny parasites were likely around during the Age of Dinosaurs.

A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa.Principal investigator David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF campus, ...

That happened some 170,000 years ago.

A new study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa.

Study is first to combine 10 years of farms' sea-lice counts and 60 years of wild fish countsA new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.The Broughton crash has become ...