Whether you’re a gardener growing food for your household, a small scale farmer or a commercial producer, soil matters. You cannot really tell the difference between healthy and unhealthy soil just by ...

Tardigrades may be the world's cutest and most famous microscopic critters. Also known as water bears or moss piglets, tardigrades are waddling eight-legged animals with a reputation for survival.

PASADENA, Calif., June 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists studying nematode mating behavior have produced video footage of a male worm preparing to mate with a hermaphrodite. California Institute of ...

LAS VEGAS — Some species of parasitic roundworms can catapult themselves high into the air to latch onto fruit flies and other insects. Experiments now reveal that leaping Steinernema carpocapsae ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate professor Shahid Siddique, Department of Entomology and Nematology, have ...

The western corn rootworm, one of the world's most damaging maize pests, can use plant defense compounds to defend itself against its own natural enemies, so-called entomopathogenic nematodes. However ...

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You probably see all kinds of critters on the beach — but what you might not realize is that the sand beneath your feet is home to a thriving microscopic universe of roundworms called nematodes.