With the emergence of cicada broods this summer, scientists have begun collecting specimens of cicada infected with a mysterious parasitic fungus that takes over the insects and turns them into ...

Many insect species hear using tympanal organs, membranes roughly resembling our eardrums but located on their legs.

a spider on a piece of wood with a parasitic fungus bursting through its head, legs and body A rare image has captured the moment a huge spider is "defeated" and engulfed by a parasitic fungus, with ...

In 2024, two broods of periodical cicadas will emerge in Illinois and the surrounding states at once: the 13-year Brood XIX and 17-year Brood XIII. A team of researchers at West Virginia University in ...

Parasitic diseases, which are passed on to people via parasites found in contaminated food, water, soil or bugs that bite humans, can be relatively uncommon in some parts of the world. In other ...

Scientists have discovered two new species of ancient parasitic fungi preserved in amber dating back 99 million years. The fungi were growing out of the bodies of host insects that became trapped in ...

In context: Weirdly shaped like a horse's hoof, F. fomentarius is a species of fungal parasite that grows on the side of trees which it infects through broken bark. When the tree dies, the fungus ...

I first heard about them when I was in the depths of my YouTube-induced vegan era. Functional mushrooms were just beginning to come onto the scene (or were just starting to be pumped into my algorithm ...

A new type of parasitic fungus found by a keen-eyed scientist scrolling through Twitter has been named after the social network. In 2018, in the run up to the U.S. midterm elections, Virginia Tech ...