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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Certain tropical frogs may want flies to get close enough to eat, but not too close. According to new research, the skin of these amphibians contains a powerful and natural mosquito repellent. But ...

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 ...

Mike Tyler: The idea of obtaining beneficial drugs from frogs seems a bit fanciful, but over the past decade there's been increasing interest in exploring their use for humans. The fact that at least ...

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 ...