Life can be tough for a squirrel — pets chase them, they are thwarted from feasting on bird feeders, they get run over by cars and bikes when they act squirrely by zig-zagging across roads and trails.

An owl’s talons is the only thing that Jerri Peake could imagine could cause those round lesions on this squirrel she saw crossing her deck in Pine Meadows in Virginia Beach. There was even a similar ...

What does a student who has an interest in research, parasites, diseases and infections do? Study bot fly infestation on ground squirrels of course. Last summer, Cal State Fullerton biology and health ...