Researchers have discovered a new example of a parasitic plant attacking a parasitic insect on their shared host plant. Love vine, a parasitic plant, attaches itself to oak trees, but it doesn’t feed ...

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Aug. 20 (UPI) --Scientists have discovered a never-before-seen interaction between parasites. Researchers at Rice University discovered a parasitic vine preying on a parasitic wasp. The two parasites, ...

Early this spring, Rice University evolutionary biologist Scott Egan stood in a patch of live oak scrub habitat in South Florida and scanned the trees for something he'd never seen outside his lab -- ...

There are plants which, like the vampires of Halloween legend, suck the “blood” of other plants. Parasitic plants take nutrients and water from other plants by extracting them from their host through ...