On a hot summer day in the blazing noon sun, you may find yourself wishing you could leap into a pool of water—especially if you’re a praying mantis infested with a parasitic hairworm. Once the ...

Researchers have revealed that praying mantis (mantids) infected with parasitic hairworms are attracted to horizontally polarized light that is strongly reflected off the surface of water, which ...

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