A fossilized ant and fly preserved in 99-million-year-old amber have revealed one of the oldest known examples of parasitic ...

At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have found unusually high levels of parasitic infection in the insects that ...

The fungi had infected species of ancient ants and flies that became trapped. Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.The insect, along with a ...

The use of entomopathogenic fungi in insect pest management represents a promising and ecologically sustainable approach. These fungi, notably Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium spp., naturally infect ...

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...

A zombie cicada fungus, _Massospora cicadina_, has consumed the rear end of this periodical cicada, replacing it with a 'plug' of chalky spores. Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND Is a zombie apocalypse caused by ...

A fungus that turns spiders into zombies sounds like something straight out of a horror movie. Both arachnophobes and people ...