MANAUS, Brazil, Oct. 20 (UPI) --Most frogs and amphibians that get in the way of South America's leaf-cutting ants will end up bitten -- pestered until they vacate the ants' territory. But not ...

Special chemicals covering the skin of a tiny yellow-striped Amazonian frog provide a protective shield that wards off leaf-cutting ants allowing it to live comfortably among them. The ants do not ...

Researchers have discovered a natural mosquito repellent in the smelly secretions of green tree frogs. Scientists at James Cook University in the tropical northern Queensland state and at the ...

Certain tropical poison frogs excrete a lipophilic alkaloid on their skin that keeps yellow fever mosquitoes-a common vector of a wide variety of parasitic pathogens-from snacking on their blood. The ...