Microbiologist Kelly Speer uses museum specimens to study blood-feeding insects and their mammalian hosts Jack Tamisiea A close-up shot of a bat fly — a specialized parasite that spends most of its ...
Bat flies represent a remarkably diverse group of obligate, haematophagous ectoparasites that specialise in parasitising bats. Their evolution is inextricably linked to that of their chiropteran hosts ...
In the long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute—a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists ...
For a long time, scientists were puzzled by the curious appearance and behaviour of the New Zealand bat fly. Now they think ...
Introduction: The world of bats / Heinz Mehlhorn -- Bats: a glimpse on their astonishing morphology and lifestyle / Volker Walldorf and Heinz Mehlhorn -- Bats as potential reservoir hosts for ...
Dr Juliane Schaer is studying bat malaria parasites, Dr Tobias Rupprecht is researching the Russian Empire as an ally of anti-colonial states and movements in the 19th century, and Dr Stijn van ...
As a biologist, Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz says it’s important not to lose sight of the natural world while working long hours in the lab. Perhaps that’s why she’s set out on a planet-wide treasure ...