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 ...

Some Australian frogs create their own insect repellent, some resembling rotten meat and others roasted cashew nuts or thyme leaves, researchers find. Frogs produce a number of chemicals in their skin ...

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 ...

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 ...

ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say they have discovered some frogs create chemicals that produce odors designed to repel insects. Frogs are known to produce several ...

Australian researchers have discovered a natural mosquito repellent in the smelly secretions of green tree frogs. HT Image Researchers at James Cook University in the tropical northern Queensland ...

Australian researchers have found that green tree frogs secrete a pungent natural mosquito repellent, but don't expect it to be on a store shelf near you any time soon. Craig Williams of Cook ...

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 ...