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With flying colors: Top entomology students honored with wasp species named after them
(Pensoft Publishers) The highly divergent parasitic wasps have long been causing headaches to scientists. At one point, taxonomists began using some genera as 'dumping grounds for unplaced members' simply to organize the species. Two entomologists have recently addressed one such issue by describing 10 new genera and even more new species in the open-access journal ZooKeys. Two of the new species are named after excellent entomology students and one bears the name of a mythological monster.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 13, 2017 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Backyard chickens harbor many parasites
(University of California - Riverside) Backyard chickens may not live as good of a life as most people think. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found backyard chickens are more likely than chickens on commercial chicken farms to be infested by ectoparasites, which are parasites such as fleas, lice and mites that live on the exterior of an organism. Their work was published online today in the Journal of Medical Entomology.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - January 11, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news