While humans wouldn’t be very happy to find that organisms were growing on their skin, particularly fungi, algae, and insects, it works out pretty well for sloths. Sloths may be hosting entire ...
"So many people worked to preserve the pine barrens," said one fire manager, "and along comes an insect the size of a grain of rice to wipe it all out." ...
Mosquitoes can survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain why rates of mosquito-borne illness don't always decline in dry periods.