An ant, no longer in control of its body, crawls away from its colony, hangs perilously on a leaf, and waits to die as a fungus consumes its body, emerges from its head, and releases spores into ...

The city of Aspen departed from their standard policy of not using herbicides or pesticides when they treated Wagner Park ...

Heveran and her team grew a mycelium scaffold using a species of fungus called Neurospora crassa, then applied the bacterium Sporosarcina pasteurii to the scaffold. As the fungus and bacteria ...

A deadly, drug-resistant fungus that preys on the sick and old is continuing to spread in hospitals and senior care facilities across the country, killing more than 1 in 3 infected. Candida auris ...

Turns out humans, aren’t the only creature that can ride the psychedelic wave that comes with ingesting fungus. Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly. We are ...

TL;DR: A new fungus, G. attenboroughii, discovered in Northern Ireland, infects spiders, causing zombie-like effects similar to the zombie-ant fungus. It alters spider behavior to spread spores ...

While many traditional Chinese/herbal medicine consumers are drawn to the fungus for its supposed health benefits, my interest lies in a darker side of its harvest: the deadly relationship between ...

The fungus hijacks the sexual signals of cicadas, turning them into zombies and forcing them to behave in ways that spread the fungus. When billions of cicadas emerge from the ground this spring ...

In studies of resistance of chickpea in ascochyta blight ... microscope as a source of pure conidia of A. rabiei following inoculation of leaves in order to maintain the pathogenicity of the fungus.

Xu identified the growth as Schizophyllum, also known as the splitgill mushroom – a type of fungus with fan-shaped caps. Schizophyllum is found around the world and consumed as food and medicine ...